As a well-edited textbook (see record 1995-98483-000 ), the chapter authors are eminent in their own right, with themes including a review of studies of addictive behavior, self-regulation vulnerabilities in substance abusers, compulsiveness and conflict, disorders of emotional development, various kinds and types of addiction, and multiple approaches to understanding addictive behavior. The
... [Show full abstract] authors range widely in their approach psychoanalytically. To be sure, the nature and treatment of addictive behavior has not been a popular subject of psychoanalytic investigation; and now in this little volume a unified effort has been successfully made, for the most part, to examine the psychology and methods of treatment of addictive behavior, dealing interestingly on the development and modulation of affect, of self-esteem, of interpersonal relationships, and of disturbances of self-care in relation to addictive behavior. This book serves well in evaluating the broad spectrum of addictive behavior, from drug addiction to alcoholism, to smoking, to gambling, to food addiction, to hypersexuality. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)