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Edward Khantzian

American psychiatrist (1935-2021)

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Lived 1935–2021, aged 86United States
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    1935–2021
    Aged 86
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Updated 2026-08-13

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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