CLINICAL AND PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC BASICS OF DRUG ADDICTION
Psychological stages and pathopsychological phenomena of alcohol dependence development i.e. the nature and essence of the disease which could be affected in the process of treatment, are set out. A combination of clinical and therapeutic approaches helps to see a new aspect of alcohol dependence, therapeutic possibilities during its treatment, to consider a patient not only from the point of view of his/her symptoms and syndromes but also from the therapeutic aims and psychotherapeutic process. An attempt is made to study the nature of an alcoholic patient which along with biological (physiological and biochemical parameters) forms the nature of dependence.