Addictive Personalities and Why People Take Drugs

Dr Gary Winship is a UKCP registered psychoanalytic psychotherapist, Associate Professor at the School of Education in Nottingham, and MA course leader in Trauma Studies. He is Senior Fellow of the Institute of Mental Health, Nottingham University, and visiting lecturer at UCL, University of Greenwich, UEL, and Goldsmiths. He is also senior adult psychotherapist at the Berkshire NHS Trust, Broadmoor & Maudsley Hospitals, and has published over ninety clinical papers and six books.

Preface , Fixing The pill mentality , Creation myths and breast junkies: in search of milk and honey , “Dracula”: from Stoker’s classic of compulsion to Arthur’s dark room , The Prometheus Syndrome: addiction, death, and the liver in mind , The pleasure paradox: nirvana and death dependency , Major Tom, Lucy, Bion, and the psychotic vacuum 1