HEROIN ADDICTION AND
RELATED CLINICAL PROBLEMS

The official journal of
EUROPAD - European Opiate Addiction Treatment Association
WFTOD - World Federation for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence

Editor: Icro Maremmani, MD - Pisa, Italy, EU
Associate Editors:	Thomas Clausen, MD - Oslo, Norway Pier Paolo Pani, MD - Cagliari, Italy, EU Marta Torrens, MD - Barcelona, Spain, EU
Statistical Editor:	Mario Miccoli, PhD - Pisa, Italy, EU

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Heroin Addiction and Related Clinical Problems: 2005, 07, 3 (pages: 5 - 20)

Psychotherapy for patients in methadone treatment

Bignamini E., Zazza S.

Summary: The management of methadone treatment requires the doctor to have a good level of relational and psychopathological competence. Drug addiction is a pathological condition, and may be defined as a “pleasure disorder” that comprises the following features: greed, compulsive mourning for the lost object, regrets for the fusional-heroic dimension. These features require psychotherapeutic treatment, which may be applied using the specific techniques developed by different schools (of psychodynamic, systemic relationship, behavioural-cognitive and group therapy).

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HEROIN ADDICTION AND RELATED CLINICAL PROBLEMS

The official journal of EUROPAD - European Opiate Addiction Treatment Association WFTOD - World Federation for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence

Editor: Icro Maremmani, MD - Pisa, Italy, EU

Associate Editors:

Thomas Clausen, MD - Oslo, Norway Pier Paolo Pani, MD - Cagliari, Italy, EU Marta Torrens, MD - Barcelona, Spain, EU

Statistical Editor:

Mario Miccoli, PhD - Pisa, Italy, EU