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Psychoanalytic Understanding and Treatment of Addiction with Lance Dodes, MD, presented as the Paul A Dewald MD Lecture by the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute
Addiction has long been deeply misunderstood both in our culture and in clinical practice. Long thought to be a reflection of poor impulse control or self-destructiveness, or a result of genetic or physical factors, addiction can now be shown to be a psychological mechanism -- a subset of psychological compulsions in general. This means that for many people addiction is best understood and treated through psychodynamic psychotherapy
In this lecture Dr. Dodes shares innovative ways to understand and treat addiction, sheds light on the roles that physical and psychological factors play in addictive behavior, and explores the relationship between addictions and compulsions.
For more than twenty years, distinguished psychiatrist Dr. Lance Dodes has been successfully helping people master their addictions -- alcoholism, compulsive gambling, smoking, sexual addiction, and more with a cutting edge approach.
Dr. Dodes describes how all addictions have, at their heart, unrecognized emotional factors that explain why we feel the impulse, why we feel it when we do, and what alternatives (really) work in that critical moment.
His books, The Heart of Addiction and Breaking Addiction: A 7-Step Handbook for Ending Any Addiction have been described as cutting-edge advances in understanding how addictions work.
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