Relationship between personality traits and complex therapy of chronic alcoholic patients
Pavlov, I.S.
Zhurnal Nevropatologii i Psikhiatrii Imeni S.S. Korsakova 80(4): 597-602
1980
ISSN/ISBN: 0044-4588 PMID: 7405470 Document Number: 155078
The paper is concerned with results of complex psychotherapy attained in the course of the treatment of 103 patients with chronic alcoholism. The perception of ones own disease in patients with chronic alcoholism is discussed. The psychotherapeutic approach and the content of work, in order to achieve the sobering aim in individual and group psychotherapy in a vigilant state are described. The paper also discusses questions of adaptation to the environment on a sobering level, as well as problems of differentiated psychotherapy depending upon the typological personality traits.