Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Cambridge Health Alliance

Psychiatry

Edward J. Khantzian, MD is an expert in the field of Psychiatry. He went to medical school at Albany Medical College. Edward Khantzian is also published. He has 46 publications published. The lastest publication: "Psychodynamics of drug dependence: an overview.'

Publications

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• Addiction as a self-regulation disorder and the role of self-medication.
• Reflections on treating addictive disorders: a psychodynamic perspective.
• Envelopments: immersion in and emergence from drug misuse.
• Self-medication, bipolar disorders, and stimulant dependence.
• Supportive psychotherapy: the nature of the connection to patients.
• The MICA Case Conference Program at Tewksbury Hospital, Mass.: an integrated treatment model.
• "Narcotics helped, I thought." Recurrent traumatization and recovery from drug dependence.
• Divalproex sodium in substance abusers with mood disorder.
• Reflections on group treatments as corrective experiences for addictive vulnerability.
• The self-medication hypothesis of substance use disorders: a reconsideration and recent applications.
• Recent developments in alcoholism:psychodynamic approaches.
• Decreased substance use in chronically psychotic patients treated with clozapine.
• How AA works and why it's important for clinicians to understand.
• The 1994 distinguished lecturer in substance abuse.
• Ego functions and psychopathology in narcotics and polydrug users.
• Psychological (structural) vulnerabilities and the specific appeal of narcotics.
• An extreme case of cocaine dependence and marked improvement with methylphenidate treatment.
• An ego/self theory of substance dependence: a contemporary psychoanalytic perspective.
• Self-preservation and the care of the self. Ego instincts reconsidered.
• Methylphenidate (Ritalin) treatment of cocaine dependence--a preliminary report.
• The alcoholic patient: an overview and perspective.
• Heroin use as an attempt to cope: clinical observations.
• Clinical experiences with methadone maintenance in young adults (rehabilitation of heroin addicts with methadone: the public health approach versus the individual pers...
• Opiate addiction: a critique of theory and some implications for treatment.
• DSM-III psychiatric diagnosis of narcotic addicts. Recent findings.
• The injured self, addiction, and our call to medicine. Understanding and managing addicted physicians.
• The self-medication hypothesis of addictive disorders: focus on heroin and cocaine dependence.
• Psychotherapeutic interventions with substance abusers--the clinical context.
• Psychotherapy with the substance-dependent physician: pitfalls and strategies.
• Alcoholism: the challenge of conceptualization and consensus (a clinician's perspective).
• Psychodynamic factors in the development of drug dependence.
• A contemporary psychodynamic approach to drug abuse treatment.
• A clinical perspective of the cause-consequence controversy in alcoholic and addictive suffering.
• The primary care therapist and patient needs in substance abuse treatment.
• From theory to practice: the planned treatment of drug users. Interview by Stanley Einstein.
• Addiction: self-destruction or self-repair?
• Alcoholics Anonymous and contemporary psychodynamic theory.
• Self-regulation and self-medication factors in alcoholism and the addictions. Similarities and differences.
• Self-regulation factors in cocaine dependence--a clinical perspective.
• Psychotherapy and patient needs in the treatment of alcohol and cocaine abuse.
• Organic problems in the aged: brain syndromes and alcoholism. Discussion: on the nature of the dependency and denial problems of alcoholics.
• Group treatment of unwilling addicted patients: programmatic and clinical aspects.
• Psychodynamics of drug dependence: an overview.
• The ego, the self, and opiate addiction: theoretical and treatment considerations.
• Acute toxic and withdrawal reactions associated with drug use and abuse.

Schools

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• Albany Medical College

Doctors Specialties

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• Addiction Psychiatry
• Psychiatry

Accepted Insurances

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Education

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• Brown University
• Albany Medical College

Hospital

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• McLean Hospital
• Cambridge Health Alliance

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