Growth toxins and collapsing old buildings

In this work person-centred psychotherapist Annika Waldhaus deals with the therapy of drug addicts with a particular focus on work in a coercive context ('therapy instead of punishment'). Building on her many years of experience in drug therapy she examines the relevant specialist literature and critically evaluates it. In doing so she particularly opposes disorder-specific approaches in the person-centred sector and the therapeutic model of abstinence as a prerequisite and goal. Annika Waldhaus represents a 'genuinely' person-centred position which is both scientific and historically contextualised as well as pointedly personal with examples from psychotherapeutic practice. From this perspective all other (including person-centred) approaches to the therapy of drug addicts must be viewed critically and ultimately rejected.