Addiction and the Vulnerable Self: Modified Dynamic Group Therapy for Substance Abusers

by Kurt S. Halliday, William E. McAuliffe, Edward J. Khantzian

Book Overview

The Harvard Cocaine Recovery Project, a National Institute on Drug Abuse-funded randomized clinical trial, was initiated in 1986 to compare different approaches for treating cocaine abusers. Modified Dynamic Group Therapy (MDGT), one of the models used in the study, is a short-term supportive-expressive psychodynamic group approach specifically adapted for cocaine addicts. While many previous studies of substance abuse treatment were compromised by...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898621720
• ISBN13: 9780898621723
• Release Date: August 1990
• Publisher: Guilford Publications
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"