The modern point of view on addictions considers them as a kind of delay in the normal psychosocial dynamics of personal maturation. Biological factors begin to play an active role in this process in the presence of active use of alcohol or other drugs. Before this, the main role in the dynamics of addiction development is played by psychosocial factors of life, family and microsocial environment. A high level of archaic affective dysfunctions can be considered as the starting point for the formation of addictions. Difficulties in early childhood in establishing stable and emotionally close relationships are a prerequisite for serious disturbances in contact with people in later life due to the predominance of a state of basic anxiety, a decrease in the addictive subject’s resistance to stress and the formation of a deep-seated need in him to experience situations and states free from anxiety. The easiest way to realize this need is to establish permanent relationships with inanimate objects, substances or processes, as well as building relationships with real people according to the type and similarity of objects, because subject-subject relationships are too unpredictable for an addict; they require the reproduction of such mechanisms of interpersonal perception as identification, empathy, reflection, which are either underdeveloped due to affective frustration at an early age, or lost in the process of addictive implementation. Emotional relationships with people lose their significance, and relationships with addictive agents “animate”, becoming a source of satisfying the need for safety, comfort, and love. An addictive personality is characterized by difficulties in empathic interpersonal communication with the inability to establish relationships of partnership and respect for another, due to a lack of ability to experience oneself as a valuable and significant subject. The consequence of this is an insufficient ability to form an internal locus of control and a weak ability for creative retroflection in the form of self-structuring, self-control and self-support. In the psychological portrait of a dependent person, the following main qualities can be identified: a feeling of inadequacy when interacting with society, a tendency to narcissism, self-justification, violation relationships with the opposite sex, with a pronounced need for recognition, a loving relationship, and worship. One of the most effective forms of work in the process of rehabilitation of an addicted client is group psychotherapy, which allows simultaneously realizing the goals of therapy in the epigenetic context of personality theory, which divides personality development into several stages and the gradual passage of each of them in the space of therapeutic relationships, and in the context of a violation of the contact cycle , interruption by the individual during addictive implementation. In the therapeutic dynamics of a group, two levels of therapeutic work are distinguished, namely relationships and . Resonance between the group topic and the individual problem helps to intensify both individual change and group dynamics. The author’s work for a long time in psychotherapeutic groups, the participants of which were patients of a closed hospital undergoing a rehabilitation program for chemical dependence, made it possible to highlight the characteristic features of building therapeutic relationships between the leader and group participants at various stages of group dynamics and stages of psychosocial crises in individual dynamics every patient. The first step in treating addicted clients is overcoming anosognosia. Group work in this context is distinguished by significant structuring activity of the leader, his support of the processes of clients’ awareness of their experiences, the formation in clients of a sense of acceptance and understanding on the part of the therapist and group members, and encouragement for self-disclosure. In the personalcontext, the addictive subject experiences a state of basic anxiety, provoked by the collapse of the addictive ego, which is responsible for the implementation of addictive behavior, the actualization of the need for emotional acceptance by a significant other, which in the therapeutic context is the leader, and the associated traumatic experience of affective dysfunctions in the client’s early object relations. The desire to avoid negative emotional experiences associated with one’s low value and self-deprecation, the fear of rejection from one’s close circle with a hidden need to be accepted by them, the inability to modulate the affects associated with intimacy, awakens protective formations that are locked in polarity in relation to the group and the leader. An attempt to establish control over negative experiences manifests itself in patterns of interrupting situations that potentially carry the threat of shame or humiliation, which can be expressed either in a pathological fusion in relation to the group and the leader, or in constant confrontation with the group and the leader, highlighting one’s peculiarity, difference from others . At this stage of work, topics of personal problems such as sexual and erotic feelings towards the leader and group members may arise. There are several reasons for this, and one of them is the deprivation of sexual relations during the period of active implementation of addictive behavior. Pleasure from sexual relations is replaced by the affect of pleasure from contact with an addictive agent. The need for objects of love disappears, and the subject of dependence feels invulnerable. During the rehabilitation process, sexual needs begin to be recognized and acquire a subject-subject orientation in the form of sexual attraction to group members. The manifestation of erotic transference in relation to the leader at this stage of therapy is often the realization of the desire to control the therapy process through corruption, discrediting a significant figure of the therapist, and a manifestation of aggression of the narcissistic register. Sexual fantasies towards the therapist are aggressive in nature, with elements of sexual or psychological abuse; the leading themes of the relationship are themes of dominance and dependence. Sexually traumatized clients may, due to an increased desire for haunting repetition, attempt to seduce the therapist. In these situations, unconscious identification with the aggressor plays a role as a way to avoid the possibility of repetition of the traumatic situation. Thus, the manifestation of erotic feelings towards the leader at this stage of work is a powerful competitive challenge to the therapist’s narcissism. For a positive passage of this stage, it is important to maintain the therapist’s contact with his own feelings, the client’s phenomenology and awareness of the realities of the therapeutic contract and the current characteristics of the contact process with the client. The next stage of the therapeutic process is associated with the awareness of guilt and the feeling of dependence of one’s own emotional state on a significant other and the external world. In relationships with group members, the neurotic vector is updated, themes of child-parent relationships often arise, and the roles that took place in the client’s family structure are projected onto others. At this stage, attraction to the therapist has the characteristics of transference love, based on unrealized oedipal desires and an attempt to sublimate them in the actual relationships of the therapeutic space. Transference feelings include all the components of the process of falling in love: projections onto the therapist of mature aspects of the ego ideal, ambivalence towards the Oedipal object, infantile sexual desires and the struggle against them. The weakening of these feelings in therapy usually occurs by shifting them to accessible objects in the client's life. In a hospital setting, where there is a ban on sexual relations, requests arise to work out conflict situations in relationships with a sexual partner who have had.