(Relational Perspectives Book Series)
by Darren M. Haber (Author)
This
book explores the compulsions and trauma that underlie addiction, using
an intersubjective approach in seeking to understand the inspirations
and challenges arising from the psychoanalytic treatment of addiction,
compulsivity, and related dissociative conditions.
Drawing
on insights from his own analytic practice and personal experience, in
addition to the work of Stolorow, Brandchaft and Winnicott, among
others, Haber considers the complex ways in which addiction becomes
woven into a person’s life, and analyses how it interacts with other
problems such as depression and anxiety, self-fragmentation, and
ambivalence about treatment. Haber creatively integrates the work of
Camus, Kafka, and Beckett to further contemplate the dilemmas that can
arise during the clinical process and, in identifying his own and his
patients’ vulnerabilities and contradictions, provides an honest,
humorous and sometimes painful account of what happens in the consulting
room.
With its use of rich clinical material and an
accessible and vivid writing style, this book will appeal to all
psychoanalysts and psychotherapists working with patients affected by
addiction, as well as other professionals seeking new insights into
effective strategies for treating this most challenging malady.
