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Lance Dodes, MD

Training and supervising analyst, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Assistant clinical professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

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The Psychological Root of Addiction

April 1, 2013

Lance Dodes, MD

Lance Dodes, MD Training and supervising analyst, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Assistant clinical professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Dr. Dodes has disclosed that he receives royalties for books on addiction. Dr. Balt has reviewed this article and found no evidence of bias in this educational activity.

Expert and author Dr. Lance Dodes describes the psychological origins of addiction and how getting to the bottom of what drives an addict is the key to helping him or her quit for good.

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