Dissociative Retreat and Addiction

Trauma, Dissociation, and Affect Dysregulation
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-35106-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 122 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Dissociative Retreat and Addiction presents a new theoretical and clinical model for understanding and treating addiction. Giuseppe Craparo examines how addictive behaviors develop as the result of complex psychic and physical conditions, working in conjunction with a specific drug object, and explores factors including poor relational and developmental history, strong emotional pain and psychopathological conditions including anxiety, depression, personality disorders and psychosis. Craparo’s clinical, developmental-relational model conceptualizes addictive symptoms as reenactments of traumatic memories and observes how drug objects are used as defensive somato-psychic retreats from the intense emotions associated with traumatic memories. The book provides a full overview of the model with clinical examples and theoretical underpinnings. Dissociative Retreat and Addiction will be of great interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and other professionals working with addiction and trauma.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Craparo, Giuseppe

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. General Aspects of the Concept of Addiction 2. A Developmental–Relational Interpretation of Addiction 3. Neurobiology of Addiction 4. Need or Desire? 5. Alexithymia and Addiction 6. Trauma, Dissociation, and Addiction 7. Traumatic Attachment Identification 8. Dissociative Trauma, Affect Dysregulation, and Addiction 9. Addiction and the Three Levels of Personality Organisation 10. The Monkey on One’s Back 11. Treating Addiction: General Considerations 12. An Integrated Approach to the Treatment of Addiction 13. Feeling Alive and Being Alive 14. Concluding Remarks

Über Autor(innen)

Giuseppe Craparo is a psychologist, psychoanalyst, Full Professor of clinical psychology, and Coordinator of the MSc programme in Clinical Psychology at the Kore University of Enna, Italy.