Substance Abuse as Symptom - A Psychoanalytic Critique of Treatment Approaches and the Cultural Beliefs That Sustain Them

Louis Berger contests both the orthodox view of substance abuse as a "disease" explicable within the medical model, and the fashionable dissenting view that substance abuse is a habit controllable through the "willpower" fostered by superficial treatment

List of contents

Part I.  1. Introduction: Psychoanalysis and Compulsive Drug Use  2. The Medical Model and Its Implications  3. Criticisms of the Medical Model  4. Viewing Society from a Psychoanalytic Perspective  5. Cultural Psychopathology and the Medical Model  Part II.  6. Optimal Interventions  7. Substance Abuse: Psychopathology, Therapies and Therapists  8. Good-Enough Therapy and Good-Enough Therapists  9. Good-Enough and Not-Good-Enough Patients 

Product details

• Authors: Louis S Berger, Louis S. Berger, Berger Louis S.
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.1991
• EAN: 9780881631029
• ISBN: 978-0-88163-102-9
• No. of pages: 270
• Weight: 660 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Addiction, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Drugs and alcohol: social aspects, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis