Louis S. Berger

Gebundenes Buch

Substance Abuse as Symptom

A Psychoanalytic Critique of Treatment Approaches and the Cultural Beliefs That Sustain Them

Beschreibung

Louis Berger contests both the orthodox view of substance abuse as a "disease" explicable within the medical model, and the fashionable dissenting view that substance abuse is a habit controllable through the "willpower" fostered by superficial treatment

Autor

Louis S. Berger's rich professional life spans the fields of electrical engineering (B.S.), physics (M.S.), music (M.M.), and clinical psychology (Ph.D.). Formerly on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Louisville School of Medicine, he is now Staff Psychologist at Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas. Dr. Berger is the author of Introductory Statistics: A New Approach for the Behavioral Sciences (1981) and Psychoanalytic Theory and Clinical Relevance: What Makes a Theory Consequential for Practice? (Analytic Press, 1985).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 546g
• ISBN-13: 9780881631029
• ISBN-10: 0881631027
• Artikelnr.: 35674849