PSYCHODINAMIC ASPECTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE DRUG ADDICTED

• Autor(a) principal: Olievenstein, Claude
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Psicologia (Universidade de Brasília. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistaptp/article/view/17009

In this text, the author underlines some obstacles inestablishing a clinic for toxicomania. Taking the drug problem as the"encounter between a product, a personality and a socio-culturalinstant", this text insists in taking in to account the extreme force of theimaginary experience of the drug-user which transgresses thetraditional causal perspective.As a consequence of this specific kinetic, it remains very difficultin traditional clinic to make a clear difference between a recreativedrug-user and a real drug-addict, because of the numerous intermediarysituations which prevail.Afterwards, the author rapidly presents the evolution whichinduces the drug-addict's destiny. Starting from the "broken mirrorstage", going through the quest of a lost identity, through the "beyondmeasure stage" and the encounter between the product and thedependency induction, the drugg-addict's destiny finally results in thesufferings of detoxication, last stage of a trajectory made of tentativesand renouncements.Taking into account the evolution of the "man of the brokenmirror", which is made up of three dual conditions (relation with theproduct, with the fault, with the suffering), the author puts forward as a therapy the setting up of a system with intervals and transitionalpersons, made up of three steps: detoxication, separation of thesurroundings, and specific psychotherapy. It is important to recall, inthis context, that ethic reflection must be included in clinical work, soas to prevent the risk of substituting a dependency (drugg-addiction) byanother (therapy).