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Shame and Guilt Inducing Drugs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

G. DiPetta
G. DiPetta*
Affiliation:
Neuropsychiatrist- addiction center consultant, department of mental health, Naples, Italy

Abstract

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The Author in this presentation examines the role of two complex human experiences, the Guilt and the Shame, in the field of the substances addiction. The population of abuser can be divided between users of sedatives and users of stimulants. Sedative drugs and stimulant drug belong to two different way of being-in-the-world. Sedative drugs are able to medicate the internal pain, which is constitutive of the guilt. Stimulant drugs are able to medicate the dysphoria, which is constitutive of the shame. In the realm of psychopathology Tellenbach with the concept of premelancholic personality in the guilty man and Kohut with the concept of narcissism in the tragic man have put the bases for a different typification. In both cases, the common final result, from a psychopathological point of view, is a severe crisis of the temporalization.

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Type
Symposium: shame and guilt in clinical practice
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 41 , Issue S1: Abstract of the 25th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2017 , pp. S24
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Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017
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