Addictive States of Mind.

COVER; CONTENTS; SERIES EDITOR'S PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS; FOREWORD; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE Challenges in a substance misuse service; CHAPTER TWO Parental addiction and the impact on children; CHAPTER THREE Won't they just grow out of it? Binge drinking and the adolescent process; CHAPTER FOUR A neglected field; CHAPTER FIVE The deprivation of female drug addicts: a case for specialist treatment; CHAPTER SIX Flying a kite: psychopathy as a defence against psychosis-observations on dual (and triple) diagnosis; CHAPTER SEVEN Gambling: addicted to the game.

CHAPTER EIGHT The nature of the addiction in "sex addiction" and paraphiliasCHAPTER NINE Anorexia nervosa: addiction or not an addiction?; CHAPTER TEN In search of a reliable container: staff supervision at a drug dependency unit; REFERENCES; INDEX.

'Perversion is taken to mean different things within psychoanalytic discourse. In this book the authors view perversions, not in terms of specific behaviours, but as a type of blueprint for object relations. While perversions may involve a quest for excitement through sex, drugs or gambling, for example, the focus here is on the underlying incapacity - or indeed at times refusal - to relate to the other as separate from the self and not as a narcissistic appendage. It is the anxieties aroused by intimacy and relatedness that drive the pursuit of ecstasy and excitement. Psychoanalytic thinking.

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