title: [Alcoholism--development and treatment from the psychoanalytic viewpoint].
abstract: Based on psychoanalytical explanatory models 4 groups of alcoholics can be distinguished: 1. Alcoholics with severe character disorder use their drug as a mean of self-punishment by self-destruction. 2. Alcoholics with low ego strength use alcohol as a stimulus barrier in an attempt at self-healing. 3. In predominantly neurotic patients alcohol consumption is considered as a regression to an oral level of drive satisfaction. 4. Alcoholism as a reaction to adverse life events is not adequately taken into account by classical analytical theory. Depending on the predominant level of personal pathology differential treatment indications are recommended.
authors.affiliation: Haus Kraichtalblick, Fachklinik für suchtkranke Frauen, Kraichtal-Oberacker.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Beutel
mesh_terms: D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000523:psychology*; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*
vernacular_title: Alkoholismus--Entstehung und Behandlung aus psychoanalytischer Sicht.