Children in Recovery: Healing the Parent–Child Relationship in Alcohol/Addictive Families. By Rosalie Cruise Jesse. London: W. W. Norton. 1989. 276 pp. £14.95.

Abstract

BOOK REVIEWS calcium in the hyperexcitable state of alcohol with drawal has suggestedthat calcium channel blockers may be beneficial in modifying withdrawal phenomena, and possibly even in preventing the development of physical dependence; this clearly needs further research. The book has a number of useful chapers but there is some unnecessary repetition and perhaps some of the chapters would be better combined. Controversial issues are given consideration, e.g. the idea that it is alcohol that causes seizures rather than the withdrawal syndrome; this is followed by a rebuttal because, it claims, there is lack of experimental evidence and epi