Relapse in alcoholism: new perspectives.
This paper focuses on relapse in the sober, motivated alcoholic in early recovery as illustrative of the core problem involved in alcoholism treatment. The psychological mechanisms of the relapse phenomenon are reexamined and a theoretical model radically different from traditional constructs is proposed.
D000436:Alcoholics Anonymous; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology; D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D012008:Recurrence; D012094:Repression, Psychology; D013850:Thinking