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Treating the Multi-Addicted Client

Session #: 710-524
Presenter(s): Mark Schwartz
Session Length: 2 hr. 00 min.
Event: 2010 Psychotherapy Networker Symposium
Date: March 25-28, 2010

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It's old news that many people suffering from addictions--chemical and alcohol dependency, eating disorders, sex addiction--are often using addictive substances or objects as a way of soothing anxiety and other strong or unpleasant emotions. What isn't so well understood is that early attachment injuries are often at the root of the addictive behavior. These clients never learned to regulate their own affect or to get comfort from relationships, leaving them highly susceptible to multiple addictions for self-soothing. In fact, 75 percent of addicted clients suffer from multiple addictions, largely as a result of disrupted, avoidant, disorganized, or traumatic attachments in early childhood. In this workshop, we'll explore an approach combining Internal Family Systems and other methods that helps clients reprocess their core negative beliefs, learn to integrate different parts of themselves, and enhance their capacity to form a strong inner attachment to the self, as well as to others.

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