Treating Addiction (eBook)

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.

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