Foreword by Martin Weegmann
Introduction
Part I. The Internal Terrain of Addiction Psychodynamics
1. Understanding Addictive Vulnerability: An Evolving Psychodynamic Perspective

2. Questions of Substance: Psychodynamic Reflections On Addictive Vulnerability and
Treatment

3. Addiction: Why Are Some of Us More Vulnerable Than Others
4. The Capacity for Self-Care and Addiction

5. The Self-Medication Hypothesis and Attachment Theory: Pathways for Understanding and
Ameliorating Addictive Suffering

Part II. The Self-Medication Hypothesis Revisited
6. The SMH and Addiction as a Problem in Self-Regulation
7. The Self-Medication Hypothesis Revisited: The Dually Diagnosed Patient
8. Self-Medication Hypothesis: Connecting Affective Experience and Drug Choice
9. The Self¿Medication Hypothesis and Psychostimulant Treatment of Cocaine Dependence: An Update
10. The Psychodynamics of Addiction and Its Treatment: An Interview with New Therapist Magazine

Part III. Treatment of Addictive Disorders
11. Reflections on Group Treatments as a Corrective for Addictive Vulnerability

12. More Reflections on Group Therapy (Interview by Martin Weegmann)

13. `Dangerous Desires and Inanimate Attachments¿: Modern Psychodynamic Approaches to Substance Misuse

14. Reflections on Treating Addictive Disorders: A Psychodynamic Perspective

15. A Psychodynamic Perspective on the Efficacy of 12-Step Programs
Part IV. Reflections and Lessons Learned
16. We Are All At Least a Little Lost and Off-Putting: On Transformation

17. Tragic Trends in the Treatment of Addictive Illness
18. Insights on the Insanity of Addiction
19. The Cruel Scourge of Addiction: An Addiction Psychiatrist¿s Clinical View
20. Life Learned from Addictions
21. Psychophobia and Getting it Right
22. The Theory of Self-Medication and Addiction