Edward Khantzian
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American psychiatrist
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Why Is Edward Khantzian Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Edward Khantzian was a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Beginning in the 1970s, he developed a progressively more coherent and empirically-grounded self-medication hypothesis of drug abuse, which states that individuals use drugs in an attempt to self-medicate states of distress and suffering.
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