A subject which is often not given the importance it deserves concerns addiction psychotherapy. Starting from taking into account the complex and problematic characteristics of this peculiar psychopathology, there will be an effort to trace back the fundamental canon of the healing process to supportive treatment. Later on, expanding on the subject, we will take into account the possibility of a phenomenologically oriented treatment, and include it into the number of those psychotherapies which are better suited to respond to the typical aspects of these clinical conditions.