Edward Khantzian
American psychiatrist (1935-2021) · United States · Died at 85
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Something wrong?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.
About this person
Country
United States
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1935 to 2021 · aged 85
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