Lance M Dodes
Biographic Data
| ID | 4487597 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lance M Dodes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lance M |
| FAMILY NAME | Dodes |
| SIGNATURE | DODES L M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute; and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Psychoanalytic Theory of Addiction
Addictions are psychological symptoms, a subset of compulsions. Because addictions are sometimes focused on drugs, observers for millennia have made the mistake of thinking that drugs and their effects are relevant to the nature of this psychological mechanism. Addictions, like other common symptoms, are also not linked to any one character type or level of psychological development. Understanding the psychology at work in addiction allows for it…
Lance Dodes on Jeffrey Roth
The heart of addiction
Compulsion and Addiction
In this paper, the proposal is advanced that addictions may be understood analytically to be a subset of compulsions, and correspondingly that they may frequently be suitable for psychoanalytic treatment A revision of the definition of addictions and compulsions is suggested, and some treatment implications of this revision are considered
Addiction, Helplessness, and Narcissistic Rage
In many cases addictive behavior serves to ward off a sense of helplessness or powerlessness via controlling and regulating one's affective state. Addicts have a vulnerability to feelings of powerlessness, which reflects a specific narcissistic impairment. The drive in addiction to re-establish a sense of power is, correspondingly, impelled by narcissistic rage. This rage gives to addiction some of its distinctive clinical properties. The narciss…
Addiction, Helplessness, and Narcissistic Rage
In many cases addictive behavior serves to ward off a sense of helplessness or powerlessness via controlling and regulating one's affective state. Addicts have a vulnerability to feelings of powerlessness, which reflects a specific narcissistic impairment. The drive in addiction to re-establish a sense of power is, correspondingly, impelled by narcissistic rage. This rage gives to addiction some of its distinctive clinical properties. The narciss…
Compulsion and Addiction
In this paper, the proposal is advanced that addictions may be understood analytically to be a subset of compulsions, and correspondingly that they may frequently be suitable for psychoanalytic treatment A revision of the definition of addictions and compulsions is suggested, and some treatment implications of this revision are considered
Addiction, Helplessness, and Narcissistic Rage
In many cases addictive behavior serves to ward off a sense of helplessness or powerlessness via controlling and regulating one's affective state. Addicts have a vulnerability to feelings of powerlessness, which reflects a specific narcissistic impairment. The drive in addiction to re-establish a sense of power is, correspondingly, impelled by narcissistic rage. This rage gives to addiction some of its distinctive clinical properties. The narciss…
Compulsion and Addiction
In this paper, the proposal is advanced that addictions may be understood analytically to be a subset of compulsions, and correspondingly that they may frequently be suitable for psychoanalytic treatment A revision of the definition of addictions and compulsions is suggested, and some treatment implications of this revision are considered
The heart of addiction
Lance Dodes on Jeffrey Roth
A Psychoanalytic Theory of Addiction
Addictions are psychological symptoms, a subset of compulsions. Because addictions are sometimes focused on drugs, observers for millennia have made the mistake of thinking that drugs and their effects are relevant to the nature of this psychological mechanism. Addictions, like other common symptoms, are also not linked to any one character type or level of psychological development. Understanding the psychology at work in addiction allows for it…
Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Addiction (3 works) · Psychiatry (3 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (3 works) · Psychotherapist (3 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (3 works) · Personality Disorders and Psychopathology (2 works) · Alcoholism (1 works) · Alcoholism (1 works)