Self-Help: An addiction is a habit that takes hold of our imaginations and refuses to allow us a focus on reality. Can addictions be cured? That can only be answered on a case-by-case basis, but the real question is whether addictions can be drained of their necessity. Can you imagine yourself beyond your addictions? In Defeating Addictions, Richard Pace allows you to use your imagination to decide just how you will address your own addictions. You will be able to poke fun at the almost religious sanctity with which we approach addictive behavior, and that in turn will help you trip up faulty logic that keeps you "dead in the water." You will be able to challenge your fears about your addictive behavior. You will finally realize that you may control your yearnings more easily by examining them in your imagination.