{"product_id":"the-addicted-self-william-marcos-silva-9798257055294","title":"The Addicted Self: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Dependency: Addiction, Desire, Culture and Clinical Practice - A Psychoanalytic Approach to Dependency","description":"\u003ci\u003eWhy do some people develop chemical dependency while most do not? Why does the addict keep using them even knowing they are destroying? And why does simply demanding they stop never working?\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book answers these questions with the rigour of the psychoanalytic tradition - from Freud to Lacan, from Abraham to Winnicott, from Ferenczi to Joyce McDougall - and with the clarity of a clinician who has spent decades listening to subjects in suffering. The Addicted Self is not an abstinence manual, nor a manifesto against drugs. It is a profound investigation into what moves a human being when seeking, in the object of their addiction, what ordinary life fails to offer: completeness, relief, jouissance without mediation, fusion with the lost object. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eOrganised in five chapters and four supplementary studies, the book covers: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe psychoanalytic genealogy of addictions - from Freud and cocaine to the Lacanian re-reading of jouissance and lack.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe clinical distinction between obsession and addiction - drive servitude through opposite pathways\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe neurobiological and psychosomatic foundations of dependency\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAddiction as a civilizational question - Huxley's SOMA, Gurfinkel's Calibanism, the politics of administered pleasure\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePassion as a drug - the addictive relationship, bond therapy, and the possible path of psychic elaboration\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book is for you if you are: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA psychoanalyst, psychologist or psychiatrist working with chemical dependency seeking to deepen your theoretical framework.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA student of psychoanalysis, psychology, medicine, or social work looking for a rigorous, non-moralizing approach.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA mental health professional - social worker, nurse, occupational therapist, CAPS coordinator or therapeutic community staff\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA family member of a dependent who wants to understand, in depth and without judgement, what happens to someone imprisoned by addiction.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA cultivated reader interested in psychoanalysis, philosophy of mind and contemporary questions of subjectivity.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Addiction is not a problem of substance - it is a problem of the subject.\" - William Marcos\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William Marcos Silva\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798257055294\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/12\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.40d","brand":"William Marcos Silva","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48520508178687,"sku":"9798257055294","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fc21e223-b8bd-4e33-aaff-c46d5b249d9a.jpg?v=1778742315","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-addicted-self-william-marcos-silva-9798257055294","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}