Louis S Berger

Substance Abuse as Symptom

A Psychoanalytic Critique of Treatment Approaches and the Cultural Beliefs That Sustain Them

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780881631029
• ISBN-10: 0881631027
• Artikelnr.: 35674849

Autorenporträt

Louis S. Berger's rich professional life spans the fields of electrical engineering (B.S.), physics (M.S.), music (M.M.), and clinical psychology (Ph.D.). Formerly on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Louisville School of Medicine, he is now Staff Psychologist at Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas. Dr. Berger is the author of Introductory Statistics: A New Approach for the Behavioral Sciences (1981) and Psychoanalytic Theory and Clinical Relevance: What Makes a Theory Consequential for Practice? (Analytic Press, 1985).

Inhaltsangabe

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