By Martin Weegmann, Robert Cohen
Within the therapy of addictions and their mental knowing, cognitive-behavioural and motivation ways were paramount. by contrast, the psychodynamic contribution has been muted. This ebook redresses this imbalance by way of bringing jointly a group of senior clinicians with psychotherapeutic backgrounds in addition to broad adventure in habit. tension is put on the variety of psychodynamic realizing and its relevance to the typical difficulties met through addicted participants. the 1st theoretical a part of the e-book is by way of examples from team and person remedy, and the foreword is written through Dr Edward Khantzian. The Psychodynamics of dependancy might be of curiosity to psychotherapists who may perhaps lack adventure in dependancy, and to different clinicians operating within the box - medical professionals, nurses and psychologists. Introduction - overview of alternative colleges: box and Contained: the varsity of Bion - the appliance of Bowlby’s Attachment thought to the Psychotherapy of Addictions - The weak Self: Heinz Kohut and the Addictions - remedy: Dynamics of dependancy within the medical Situation - Psychodynamic review of Drug Addicts - person Psychotherapy with Addicted People - staff treatment for Addiction - assisting the Helpers: Psychodynamic point of view on Relapse Prevention in Addiction - looking for a competent box: employees Supervision in a DDU -Countertransference with Addicts - habit and the relations: transforming into up with Alchohol or Drug Abuse within the Family - References - IndexContent:
Chapter 1 box and Contained: the college of Bion (pages 3–12): Arthur Hyatt Williams
Chapter 2 the applying of Bowlby's Attachment conception to the Psychotherapy of the Addictions (pages 13–30): invoice Reading
Chapter three The weak Self: Heinz Kohut and the Addictions (pages 31–49): Martin Weegmann
Chapter four The Dynamics of dependancy within the scientific scenario (pages 53–71): Robert Cohen
Chapter five The Psychodynamic evaluate of Drug Addicts (pages 72–84): Martin Weegmann
Chapter 6 Psychotherapy with Addicted humans (pages 85–98): Anne Read
Chapter 7 staff remedy for dependancy (pages 99–114): James Mosse and Mary Ann Lysaght
Chapter eight Psychodynamic elements of Relapse Prevention within the therapy of Addictive Behaviours (pages 117–132): Sbamil Wanigaratne and Francis Keaney
Chapter nine looking for a competent box: employees Supervision at a DDU (pages 133–140): Robert Hale
Chapter 10 Countertransference: Our problems within the therapy of Substance Abuse (pages 141–152): Luis Rodriguez de l. a. Sierra
Chapter eleven turning out to be Up with habit (pages 155–168): Martin Weegmann
Read or Download The Psychodynamics of Addiction PDF
Best psychopathology books
Psychopathology: History, Diagnosis, and Empirical Foundations
Edited and written via precise leaders within the box, Psychopathology presents accomplished assurance of grownup psychopathology, together with an outline of the subject within the context of the DSM. person chapters hide the background, conception, and evaluation of Axis I and Axis II grownup issues corresponding to panic illness, social nervousness, bipolar problems, schizophrenia, and borderline character affliction.
Illness and Power: Women's Mental Disorders and the Battle Between the Sexes
Seeing that precedent days, physicians have believed that girls are in particular prone to yes psychological health problems. modern learn confirms that ladies are certainly extra vulnerable than males to anxiousness, melancholy, a number of character, and consuming issues, and a number of other types of what was once known as hysteria.
The Therapist’s Answer Book: Solutions to 101 Tricky Problems in Psychotherapy
Therapists necessarily think extra gratified of their paintings while their situations have greater therapy outcomes. This publication is designed to assist them in achieving that by way of delivering useful recommendations to difficulties that come up in psychotherapy, equivalent to: Do depressed humans want an antidepressant, or psychotherapy on my own?
The Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability
Finished concise and simply available this is often the 1st future health economics dictionary of its variety and is an important reference software for everybody concerned or attracted to healthcare. the fashionable terminology of wellbeing and fitness economics and suitable phrases utilized by economists operating within the fields of epidemiology public health and wellbeing determination administration and coverage reviews are all essentially defined.
Extra info for The Psychodynamics of Addiction
Sample text
For example, the securely attached infant is likely to manifest little overt attention to the attachment-figure when in herhis proximity and may engage in exploratory play The experience of potential threat or separation will be likely to activate the attachment behavioural system, for example in the form of crying, clinging and searching, and play will become suspended (deactivated). Cessation of a perceived threadseparation will result in a brief engagement in reassuringkomfortingbehaviours as the attachment behavioural system deactivates and other systems (that is, play) reactivate.
The patient’s tendency to resort to defensiveness when relating to the therapist is responded to in the context of the understanding and resolution of whatever it is that may have disturbed his or her sense of security within the alliance. For a useful discussion of some of the ways in which the therapist may adapt posture and technique within the supportive modes of therapy see Holmes (1996). It is perhaps worth pausing to reflect on the fact that the therapist’s own Internal Working Models are also subject to revision as a result of experiences within a relationship, including those with patients.
In the diagram, this predicament is represented in terms of a spiral, with a chronic movement inwards or downwards. Such self-defeating mechanisms have been amply recognised in other approaches, like AA, in the form of helpful reminders or slogans, such as: ‘We drank for joy and became miserable’, ‘We drank for strength and became weak’, ‘We drank for confidence and became doubtful’ and so on. There is some common ground between this view of addiction and other conceptualisations within the psychodynamic tradition, for example those of Rado (1933 1957) from a relatively more classical framework, or the more recent work of Wrmser (1978).
