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Edward J. Khantzian
Researcher at Harvard University
Publications - 75
Citations - 9260
Edward J. Khantzian is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Substance abuse & Addiction. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 75 publications receiving 8773 citations. Previous affiliations of Edward J. Khantzian include Cambridge Health Alliance & Cambridge Hospital.
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The self-medication hypothesis of addictive disorders: Focus on heroin and cocaine dependence.
TL;DR: Clinical observations and psychiatric diagnostic findings of drug-dependent individuals suggest that they are predisposed to addiction because they suffer with painful affect states and related psychiatric disorders.
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The self-medication hypothesis of substance use disorders: a reconsideration and recent applications.
TL;DR: Clinical observations and empirical studies that focus on painful affects and subjective states of distress more consistently suggest that such states of suffering are important psychological determinants in using, becoming dependent upon, and relapsing to addictive substances.
The Self-medication Hypothesis of Substance Use Disorders: A Reconsideration and Recent Applications
TL;DR: The self-medication hypothesis of addictive disorders derives primarily from clinical observations of patients with substance use disorders as mentioned in this paper, who discover that the specific actions or effects of each class of drugs relieve or change a range of painful affect states.
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DSM-III Psychiatric Diagnosis of Narcotic Addicts: Recent Findings
TL;DR: Heterogeneity of diagnosis is noted, depressions and personality disorders, often in combination, were most prominent in narcotic addicts diagnosed using DSM-III criteria.
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Heroin Use as an Attempt To Cope: Clinical Observations
TL;DR: It is suggested that addicts' use of opiates represents a unique and characteristic way of dealing with ordinary human problems and the real world around them and the pseudoculture of the addict also plays a part infilling his social vacuum and providing an alternative to the establishment of meaningful attachments to other people.