Os tratamentos para usuários de drogas em instituições de saúde mental: Perspectivas a partir da clínica psicanalítica

Abstract

This paper presents an analysis of treatments provided to drug users from a psychoanalytic perspective. Specific aspects of the clinical direction of the treatment of addictions are discussed, with a special focus on the concepts of subject, jouissance and ethics, brought up through fragments of clinical cases. We conclude that the psychoanalytic clinic does contribute to such treatments by opening up possibilities for a repositioning of the subject and new ways to configure jouissance. © 2009 Associação Universitária de Pesquisa em Psicopatologia Fundamental/University Association for Research in Fundamental Psychopathology.