Cocaine Addicts and Their Families
An Empirical Study of the Processes of Identification
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8970885 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ricardo Tavares Pinheiro (0000-0001-9796-3126, Pelotas, Brazil, corresponding author), Paulo Luís Rosa Sousa (Pelotas, Brazil), Ricardo Azevedo Da Silva (0000-0002-9114-7037), Bernardo L Horta (0000-0001-9843-412X), Rosana Mendonça De, Rosana Mendona Souza (Pelotas, Brazil), Manuela Fleming (Oporto) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 347-360 |
| Publication date | 2001-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of Psychoanalysis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7578 • E-ISSN: 1745-8315 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1516/v04m-d744-gklt-j7g7 |
| PMID | 11341066 |
| OpenAlex | W1971435637 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 8 |
The processes of identification between adolescent cocaine addicts and their parents were studied in 402 subjects, in total 134 familial triads (father“mother”son), subdivided into two groups of 67 triads, one of these groups having as the child an adolescent of masculine sex dependent on cocaine and the other, equal in number, being a control group, duly matched for age and socio‐economic status. The instrument employed was the Rorschach test (1922), limited to the application of the Lerner Defense Scale (LDS; Lerner & Lerner, 1980). The findings in the affected triads showed up as consistent statistically for the presence of intense processes of pathological identification, especially between father and son, a sign of the importance of the presence of disturbances of paternal function in the development of this addiction. The utilisation of very regressive defence mechanisms, above all of projective identification, was the predominant mode of procedure in triads with a dependent child. In comparisons between the fathers the odds ratio (OR) for projective identification was 8.66 to 1, which points to the association between cocaine addiction and the primitive mental functioning of the fathers. With empirical methodology these findings serve to corroborate the psychoanalytical conclusions based on studies of single case studies, testifying that the dysfunctions of identificatory phenomena in familial functioning are predominant in the mental organisation of cocaine addicts
Addiction · Developmental psychology · Identification (biology · Projective identification · Projective test · Psychiatry · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Psychotherapist · Rorschach test · Clinical Psychology · Personality Disorders and Psychopathology · Psychological Testing and Assessment · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2006 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |