Citation

Vos HP. J. Subst. Abuse Treat. 1989; 6(3): 193-199.

Affiliation

Stichting Nieuw Hoog-Hullen, Eelde, Holland.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1989, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2795707

Abstract

Public opinion and a great deal of political action regarding the use of drugs and the desired approach to it only reflect the surface of the phenomenon. This is alarming, especially in view of the problems that lie behind alcohol and drug abuse and addiction. Alarm is also appropriate in consideration of the consequences of the neglect of personal and relational information for the individual addict as well as for society and culture. A clarification of this is given in this article by an explanation of the problems that lie behind addiction. Information about this has been derived from long-term intensive psychodynamic psychotherapies of addicts and their families of origin. It involves a phenomenological description of the intrapsychic and interpersonal psychopathology behind the addiction phenomenon. An explanatory theory of the origin of addiction is not given, nor are the findings placed into diagnostic categories.

Language: en