{"value"=>"<p> <span class=\"title\">Understanding Addiction in a Patient Diagnosed as Schizophrenic.</span></p> <p>This thesis is concerned with a 32 year old male psychiatric patient with a secondary diagnosis of substance abuse. The study examines alcoholism, nicotine abuse, caffeinism, inhalant and food abuse. The disease concept of alcoholism is used as a point of departure to examine the patient's abuse of perfume, cigarettes, coffee, nasal inhalers and food as well as his self-anesthetizing neck choking behavior.</p> <p>The male patient was seen in 24 individual dance therapy sessions. The analysis of the sessions includes a review of initial working process, and an examination of the signals of substance dependence (that the therapist did not know how to address). The study reveals that many of the bizarre behaviors attributed to this psychiatric patient are actually addictive behaviors. The analysis suggests changes in approach for the dance therapy sessions stressing that the healing process of the patient is enhanced when the patient's substance dependence is addressed and treated.</p>"}