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

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

by Louis S. Berger
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Availability:In StockContributor:Louis S. BergerPublish date:1991-05-01Pages:270
Languages:EnglishPublisher:RoutledgeISBN-13:9780881631029ISBN-10:881631027UPC:9780881631029Book Category:Psychology, MedicalBook Subcategory:Psychotherapy, Neurology, Interpersonal RelationsBook Topic:PsychoanalysisSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.63 inchesWeight:1.17Product ID:SCEWT3PE10
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
Languages:EnglishPublisher:RoutledgeISBN-13:9780881631029ISBN-10:881631027UPC:9780881631029Book Category:Psychology, MedicalBook Subcategory:Psychotherapy, Neurology, Interpersonal RelationsBook Topic:PsychoanalysisSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.63 inchesWeight:1.17Product ID:SCEWT3PE10

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).


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