Treating Addiction : Beyond the Pain.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A HUMANISTIC UNDERSTANDING OF ADDICTION -- Part I: THE INTERNAL TERRAIN OF ADDICTION: PSYCHODYNAMICS -- CHAPTER 1: Understanding Addictive Vulnerability -- CHAPTER 2: Questions of Substance -- CHAPTER 3: Addiction: Why Are Some of Us More Vulnerable Than Others? -- CHAPTER 4: The Capacity for Self-Care and Addiction -- CHAPTER 5: The Self-Medication Hypothesis and Attachment Theory -- Part II: THE SELF-MEDICATION HYPOTHESIS REVISITED -- CHAPTER 6: The SMH and Addiction as a Problem in Self-Regulation -- CHAPTER 7: The Self-Medication Hypothesis Revisited -- CHAPTER 8: Self-Medication Hypothesis -- CHAPTER 9: The Self‐Medication Hypothesis and Psychostimulant Treatment of Cocaine Dependence -- CHAPTER 10: The Psychodynamics of Addiction and Its Treatment -- Part III: TREATMENT OF ADDICTIVE DISORDERS -- CHAPTER 11: Reflections on Group Treatments as a Corrective for Addictive Vulnerability -- CHAPTER 12: More Reflections on Group Therapy -- CHAPTER 13: "Dangerous Desires and Inanimate Attachments" -- CHAPTER 14: Reflections on Treating Addictive Disorders -- CHAPTER 15: A Psychodynamic Perspective on the Efficacy of 12-Step Programs -- Part IV: REFLECTIONS AND LESSONS LEARNED -- CHAPTER 16: We Are All at Least a Little Lost and Off-Putting -- CHAPTER 17: Tragic Trends in the Treatment of Addictive Illness -- CHAPTER 18: Insights on the Insanity of Addiction -- CHAPTER 19: The Cruel Scourge of Addiction -- CHAPTER 20: Life Lessons Learned from Addictions -- CHAPTER 21: "Psychophobia" and Getting It Right -- CHAPTER 22: The Theory of Self-Medication and Addiction -- Credits -- Index -- About the Author -- About the Contributors.

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.

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