The most critical unresolved issue associated with psychoanalysis is whether its core
precepts belong in today's substance use armamentarium. Psychoanalytic theories have …

Recent changes in psychoanalysis and substance abuse treatment are healing long-
standing rifts that had kept these two fields apart. This article elaborates the historical …

CLINICAL SITUATIONS which psychoanalytic theory has brought understanding to this
problem, and some writers have discussed ways in which psychoanalysis, conducted with or …

Addiction has been widely misunderstood and inappropriately treated for virtually all of
human history, because of a failure to appreciate its psychological nature. This chapter …

Drugs and drug use are an integral part of human culture. Yet we know hardly anything
about drugs, at least not the kind of knowledge that would help us to understand how drugs …

Reviews the psychoanalytic theories of L. Wurmser, EJ Khantzian, H. Krystal, and J.
McDougall concerning substance abuse. According to Wurmser (see record 1988-15069 …

This chapter elaborates, the development of substance use treatment to include Harm
Reduction Therapy, and the growth of relational psychoanalysis have brought the …

In this paper I would like to reflect and draw upon a psychodynamic perspective and four
decades of work with drug-dependent patients, to look at the struggles and suffering that …

What can psychoanalysis contribute to an understanding of the etiology, treatment, and
prevention of substance abuse? Here, Louis Berger contests both the orthodox view of …

Although psychodynamic approaches to addiction have not been prominent in the field
compared with a range of other psychosocial models, it is our contention that such …