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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.
List of contents
Foreword by Martin Weegmann
Introduction
Part 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 Disorders
11. Reflections on Group Treatments as a Corrective for Addictive Vulnerability
12. More Reflections on Group Therapy (Interview by Martin Weegmann)
13. 'Dangerous Desires and Inanimate Attachments': Modern Psychodynamic Approaches to Substance Misuse
14. Reflections on Treating Addictive Disorders: A Psychodynamic Perspective
15. A Psychodynamic Perspective on the Efficacy of 12-Step Programs
Part IV. Reflections and Lessons Learned
16. We Are All At Least a Little Lost and Off-Putting: On Transformation
17. 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 Addictions
21. Psychophobia and Getting it Right
22. The Theory of Self-Medication and Addiction
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
