title: [Phenomenology of craving: from differentiation to adequate therapy].
abstract: The author analyzes a phenomenon of addiction from the psychological/psychiatric position and differentiates it from psychopathological disorders, including parabulia, hyperbulia, paraphylia, commonly used for the definition of drive disorders. It has been concluded that addition is a specific complex of clinical symptoms which is not similar to other drive disorders. To avoid diagnostic and therapeutic errors, the author suggests to revise definitions by assigning the biological sense to the conception of addiction within psychoactive substance dependence and sexual addiction, some forms of eating dependence and to use the definition of paraaddictive drives in cases of over-valued drives (gambling, Internet dependence, fanaticism etc).
authors.forename: V D
authors.initials: VD
authors.lastname: Mendelevich
mesh_terms: D016739:Behavior, Addictive / Q000145:classification* / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D010262:Paraphilic Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000523:psychology; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000145:classification* / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000523:psychology