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Frozen and floating reality in drug addiction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 April 2020
Abstract
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.
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- S15-04
- Information
- European Psychiatry , Volume 26 , Issue S2: Abstracts of the 19th European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2011 , pp. 2067
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- Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2011
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