A Reader’s Guide to Psychology and Recovery
An extended exploration of the psychology behind recovery: how people understand their experience, respond to difficulty and move towards what matters.
Dr Eric Hadinata
MBBS BMedSci FRACGP FAChAM
First edition · 12/09/2026 · 305 B5 pages
This overview and the contents are public. All reading pages and the downloadable PDF require the separate Reader’s Guide access details.
Purpose and approach
The Reader’s Guide offers sustained explanation for readers who want to understand psychology and recovery in greater depth. It can be read on its own or alongside a workbook, without requiring the reader to follow a treatment-session sequence.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) provides the organising perspective. The book explores psychological patterns, emotions, relationships and change, with supporting perspectives from Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Mentalisation-Based Treatment (MBT) and Radically Open Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (RO-DBT).
Seven chapters focus on addiction and recovery within the book's wider psychological account. This strand gives substance use sustained attention while keeping it connected to the broader discussion of experience, behaviour and change.
The 32 chapters span 305 B5 pages, supported by 198 references and a glossary. The online edition allows chapter-by-chapter reading; the PDF brings the complete book together in one download.
This is an educational book, not an individual assessment, a treatment prescription or a substitute for professional care. Standalone reading does not mean standalone treatment.
A distinct companion publication
The Reader’s Guide develops the concepts in continuous explanatory prose. It suits readers seeking an extended account of psychology and recovery, including those who want more context for ideas encountered in therapy or a workbook.
Browse the Reader’s Guide contentsThe existing workbooks organise teaching and practical work into sessions and selected pathways. They remain separate publications with their own purposes, formats and access details. The Reader’s Guide adds context without replacing them.
Compare all books and therapeutic resourcesOnline and PDF
The protected online edition includes the front matter, all 32 chapters and the back matter. Readers can follow the book in sequence or choose a chapter from the full contents. The protected PDF download preserves the approved B5 book layout.
Reader’s Guide access is separate from workbook and facilitator access. The downloaded PDF asks for the same Reader’s Guide password when opened.