Emotional comorbidities in drug addictions. Recount and thematic review

Abstract

It is a thematic review where the author's path in scientific research focused on enhancing the effectiveness of psychotherapeutic treatment of people with alcoholism or any other drug addiction and the results of published studies are exposed. The thematic review focuses on the neurotic level affective spectrum comorbidities in drug addictions from the progressive understanding of this author in the professional practice with Cuban and Latin American patients. The logic followed in scientific research and its outcome towards an effective professional practice in psychotherapy in this area of clinical psychology is narrated. The state of the art in the Cuban user population of these services is reported, the value of resources and psychotherapeutic strategies that give prestige to the work with the emotional area of users of the addiction service is based, since they seem to contain a greater potential for effectiveness to fulfill psychotherapeutics objectives.