ABSTRACT
Therapy with recovering addicts can be quite different from intervening with addicts who are actively using. As addicts develop and change in recovery, their interpersonal fields become more complex and varied. Often the recovering client has focused consistently on not using drugs but is stuck in some other process. We meet recovering clients who chronically repeat old patterns, who are difficult to work with for a variety of reasons, and who view therapy as a threat or as competition with their other support systems such as Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous.
