Addiction, Helplessness, and Narcissistic Rage
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9230845 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lance M Dodes (330 Mount Auburn St. Cambridge, MA 02238, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 398-419 |
| Publication date | 1990-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Psychoanalytic Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-2828 • E-ISSN: 2167-4086 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/21674086.1990.11927278 |
| PMID | 2399288 |
| OpenAlex | W106688131 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 17 |
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 narcissistic vulnerability in addicts is discussed. Several brief clinical cases are provided, and the view proposed is correlated with other psychoanalytic perspectives
Addiction · Feeling · Learned helplessness · Narcissism · Power (physics) · Psychiatry · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Psychotherapist · Rage (emotion) · Vulnerability (computing) · Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders · Personality Disorders and Psychopathology · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology
Verbal elaboration of distinct affect categories and narcissistic personality disorder features
Alcohol recovery in self-help groups
Opioid Addiction/Pregnancy and Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS)
The Preponderance of Psychic Elements in Drug Addiction
Guilt, Shame, and Depression in Clients in Recovery from Addiction
Gender Differences in Social and Psychological Problems of Substance Abusers
Black holes
Labor relations and the overdose crisis in the United States
Building the Nest
Addictions and the Quest to Control the Object
Psychotropic Medication Management in Persons with Co-Occurring Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders
A Perilous High Wire Act
Siblings, sex, and shame
What can we learn from psychoanalysis and prospective studies about chemically dependent patients
Compulsion and Addiction
Lance Dodes on Jeffrey Roth
Three Perspectives On Addiction
Prologue
A Psychoanalytic Theory of Addiction
Controlling the uncontrollable. Self-regulation and the dynamics of addiction
Paying attention to the mute part
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,64 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 2025 (33) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |