Current approaches to the treatment of drug addiction are based on an
earlier approach derived from a traditional psychoanalytic framework. The
author describes how this framework has been modified by three broad areas
of understanding, i.e., issues related to addicts, to the methods of
psychoanalysis, and to the earlier incomplete understanding about drugs.
The comprehensive, multimodality treatment approach used today draws on
psychoanalysis's contribution of a rational framework for the understanding
of personal behavior in all forms of treatment and the need for a
relationship as the core of all treatment, regardless of the modality.Abstract Teaser