Leon Hoffman
Leon Hoffman, M.D., is Chair of the American Psychoanalytic Association's Committee on Public Information, and a training and supervising psychoanalyst at The New York Psychoanalytic Institute.
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How can psychoanalysis help problem drinking?
- By Leon Hoffman
- Published 01/31/2005
- Alcohol , Psychoanalytic Theories of Addiction
- Unrated
Psychoanalysis is both a theory of the functioning of the mind as well as a mode of psychological treatment for emotional and psychological difficulties. Psychoanalytic theory has two basic premises: 1) a great deal of our mental activity is beyond our conscious awareness, and 2) what we think, feel, and experience in the present is affected by our past.
