Disclaimer: Nothing in this document should be taken or held as clinical instruction, clinical supervision, or advisory concerning patient care.
This monograph responds…by introducing some elementary but foundational philosophical pre-conditions to psychodynamic models and their application to the SUD professional’s core function of case conceptualization. Next, elementary entrance points to the unconscious will be presented. These will be applied to the personal change process and related clinical targets for the patient with a severe SUD. Finally, some fundamental psychodynamic processes will be defined, and examples within treatment and counseling for SUD severe will be provided. The scope of relevance for this collective material will be extended to the patient’s family members, the SUD counselor, and the clinical supervisor.
By the end, I hope to help the reader: remember the definition of “ontology” and its usefulness to improve person-centered methods; understand some common perils of reductionism and remedies for each; apply the basic notion of the unconscious across SUD counselor core functions; analyze the SUD severe patient’s personal change process from a wholistic and psychodynamic perspective; evaluate the level of inclusiveness of psychodynamic principles in the material of the patient, family member, counselor, and clinical supervisor; create psychodynamically-informed clinical interventions just-in-time.
Acknowledgement
Thanks to Bob Lynn, Ed.D., for his comments on a previous version of this work.
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