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Neuropsychoanalytic Approach to the Phenomena of Addiction and Substance Use

Student: Zhikhareva Klara

Supervisor: Andrey V. Rossokhin

Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences

Educational Programme: Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2019

The aim of the thesis was to analyze and evaluate the benefits of the neuropsychoanalytic approach in the practice of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy of patients with drug addiction. During the study several tasks were performed. At the beginning of the work, the views of Sigmund Freud and modern neuropsychoanalysts on the problem of addiction were considered. Further, there was made a review of recent studies and clinical cases using neuroscience in the psychoanalytic treatment of patients addicted to psychoactive substances. In the practical part of the thesis, a clinical case of psychoanalytic psychotherapy of a drug-addicted patient, was analyzed, in the treatment of which had been used a neuropsychoanalytic approach. As a result, there was made an evaluation of the use of the neuropsychoanalitic understanding in working with such patients.

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