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Cocaine psychosis and AIDS: a contemporary diagnostic dilemma
1Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge Hospital, MA 02139.
Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
This article examines some of the differential diagnostic considerations associated with the interaction between advanced cocaine psychosis and the neuropsychiatric manifestations of AIDS-Spectrum Disorders. A clinical case is presented to illustrate the potential for institutional countertransference in the treatment of substance abusing patients. The role of a multi-dimensional hypotheses testing model in cocaine related cases is discussed.