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Frozen and floating reality in drug addiction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

G. Di Petta*
Affiliation:
Naples 2 Dependency, Institution Addiction Center, Naples, Italy

Abstract

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Drug abuse is able to modify the state of consciousness and, as a consequence, the sense of reality. The author describes two fundamental modifications of the sense of reality under drug effect: “floating” and “frozen”. The first, “floating” is induced by acute intoxication; the second, “frozen”, is produced by chronic drug dependence. These two reality modifications are described from a phenomenological and a psychopathological perspective. Intentionality, space, time, otherness are described in their different “floating” and frozenstructure. “Floating” patients need of adaequate medical treatment. In conclusion, the author introduces the dasein-group treatment, based upon shared emotions, as a concrete possibility to cure frozen patient.

Type
S15-04
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2011
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