Treating Addiction (eBook)

Beyond the Pain

Edward J. Khantzian (Autor)

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2018
292 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-5381-0859-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Treating Addiction: Beyond the Pain emphasizes that what is needed to better treat addictive disorders is an empathic understanding of what addictively prone individuals endure that makes addiction so compelling. Khantzian uses evidence from five decades of study and treatment to show effective treatment is based on appreciation of these issues.

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In Treating Addiction: Beyond the Pain, Edward Khantzian offers a collection of his recent works on the study and treatment of substance abuse and addiction. Based on his five decades of experience in working with substance dependent individuals, this volume builds upon Khantzian's theory of addiction as self-medication and provides insights into how addiction is rooted in human psychological suffering, and not pleasure seeking or self-destruction. Almost without exception, life histories of human discomfort, disconnection, and unhappiness leave those so burdened to be vulnerable to the appeal of addictive drugs, including alcohol. Khantzian's sensitive teaching voice weaves together an annotated collection of previously published papers into a powerful and engaging volume of effective practice-based treatments. A timely complement to his earlier collection Treating Addiction as a Human Process, this book provides an inclusive and accessible resource for mental health professionals from any background as well as graduate students and those in training.

Autor

EDWARD J. KHANTZIAN, MD, is professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and past president of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry. Dr. Khantzian is a distinguished scholar, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst, specializing in addictions for more than forty years. His other work includes Treating Addiction as a Human Process and (with Mark J. Albanese) Understanding Addiction as Self Medication: Finding Hope Behind the Pain.

Inhalt

Foreword by Martin WeegmannIntroductionPart I. The Internal Terrain of Addiction Psychodynamics 1. Understanding Addictive Vulnerability: An Evolving Psychodynamic Perspective 2. Questions of Substance: Psychodynamic Reflections On Addictive Vulnerability and Treatment 3. Addiction: Why Are Some of Us More Vulnerable Than Others 4. The Capacity for Self-Care and Addiction 5. The Self-Medication Hypothesis and Attachment Theory: Pathways for Understanding and Ameliorating Addictive Suffering Part II. The Self-Medication Hypothesis Revisited 6. The SMH and Addiction as a Problem in Self-Regulation 7. The Self-Medication Hypothesis Revisited: The Dually Diagnosed Patient 8. Self-Medication Hypothesis: Connecting Affective Experience and Drug Choice 9. The Self‐Medication Hypothesis and Psychostimulant Treatment of Cocaine Dependence: An Update 10. The Psychodynamics of Addiction and Its Treatment: An Interview with New Therapist Magazine Part III. Treatment of Addictive Disorders11. Reflections on Group Treatments as a Corrective for Addictive Vulnerability12. More Reflections on Group Therapy (Interview by Martin Weegmann) 13. ‘Dangerous Desires and Inanimate Attachments’: Modern Psychodynamic Approaches to Substance Misuse14. Reflections on Treating Addictive Disorders: A Psychodynamic Perspective15. A Psychodynamic Perspective on the Efficacy of 12-Step Programs Part IV. Reflections and Lessons Learned16. We Are All At Least a Little Lost and Off-Putting: On Transformation17. Tragic Trends in the Treatment of Addictive Illness 18. Insights on the Insanity of Addiction 19. The Cruel Scourge of Addiction: An Addiction Psychiatrist’s Clinical View 20. Life Learned from Addictions21. Psychophobia and Getting it Right 22. The Theory of Self-Medication and Addiction

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.2.2018
• Vorwort: Gatehou Martin Weegman consultant clinical psychologist and group analyst
• Zusatzinfo: 8 Illustrations including: - 2 Black & White Illustrations; - 6 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Suchtkrankheiten
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Addiction Treatment • Addictive disorders • Case Studies • clincial studies • clinical studies • Counseling • graduate students • how to • practice-based treatment • professional development • psychodyamic perspective • psychodynamic perspective • rehabilitation counseling • self-medication hypothesis • Social Work • substance abuse • therapy • work with addiction
• ISBN-10: 1-5381-0859-3 / 1538108593
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5381-0859-8 / 9781538108598