Changing Substance Abuse and Criminal Behavior Through Therapeutic Relationships

This book approaches the treatment process from a new andyet old perspective. Eleven men who successfully desisted from substance abuseand offending were interviewed to determine how their significant therapeuticrelationships facilitated this life change. Data is integrated with a newpsychodynamic framework, relational analytic theory, which focuses clinicalattention on the qualities and processes of the therapeutic relationship. Atherapy model is developed which addresses how to attain and main