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Education and Clinical TrainingBS: 1972, Columbia UniversityM.D.: 1976, New York Medical College Internship: 1976, Harlem Hospital Residency: Medicine, 1977, Metropolitan Hospital Center Residency: Psychiatry, 1981, Cambridge Hospital Clinical Department/Practice AffiliationsAssociate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral SciencesResearch InterestsAddictive disease via psychoanalysis of addicted patients Relationship between prescription of potentially addictive drugs by physicians, and addiction in their patients.Additional InformationArticles: Johnson, B., Bursztajn, H. J., Paul, R., Coletsos, I. Reducing the risk of addiction to prescribed medications. Psychiatric Times 2007; 24, #5:35-8. Johnson, B. Commentary on Simon Boags Freudian dream theory, dream bizarreness and the disguise-censor controversy. Neuro-Psychoanalysis 2006;8:33-40 Jones, D.S., Krotick, S., Johnson, B., Morrison, A.P. Clinical challenge: Waiting for rescue, an attorney who will not advocate for himself. Harvard Review of Psychiatry 2005:13;344-56. Johnson, B. Psychological addiction, physical addiction, addictive character, addictive personality disorder: a new nosology of addiction. Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis 2003;11:135-160. Johnson, B. A Neuropsychoanalytic approach to addiction. Neuro-Psychoanalysis 2003;5:29-34. Johnson, B. Drug dreams: a neuropsychoanalytic hypothesis. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 2001;49:75-96. Longo, L., Parran, T., Johnson, B., Kinsey, W. Addiction: Part 2. Identification and management of the drug-seeking patient. American Family Physician 2000;61:2401-8. Longo, L., Johnson, B. Addiction: Part 1. Benzodiazepines - side effects, abuse risks and alternatives. American Family Physician 2000;61:2121-8. Johnson, B. Three perspectives on addiction. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 1999;47:791-815. Longo, L., Johnson, B. Treatment of insomnia in substance abusing patients. Psychiatric Annals 1998;28:154-9. Johnson, B., Longo, L. Considerations in the physicians decision to prescribe benzodiazepines to patients with addiction. Psychiatric Annals 1998;28:154-9. Johnson, B. The mechanism of codependence in the prescription of benzodiazepines to patients with addiction. Psychiatric Annals 1998;28:166-71. Book Chapter: "Drugs of Abuse, Sleep and the Quality of Life," in J.C. Verster, S.R. Pandi-Perumal, D.L. Streiner, eds. Sleep and the Quality of Life, Humana Press 2008This profile was last updated on 05/04/2009 Request an Appointment/Referral |
