Video: What is "behavioral addiction"?
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Marc F. Kern
Marc F. Kern, Ph.D., has over 30 years of clinical psychotherapy experience helping people overcome their self-defeating habits and acquire the insights and skills to live happier lives. He has a deep personal understanding of the addictive process and continues his lifelong research of contemporary treatments for addiction and other destructive behaviors.
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By Marc F. Kern
Published on 04/18/2008
Addictions are not necessarily bad things, or at least they never intend to be bad things. They are ways people look to "elixers", I call them, to cope with life, bad feelings, bad events, and they're always adaptive at first.
The way I define addiction is "an adaptation to life that has gone awry." What happens over time is that adaptation goes down a wrong road or a bad road or a "Y" and the person is locked into it.
Addictions are not necessarily bad things, or at least they never
intend to be bad things. They are ways people look to "elixers", I call
them, to cope with life, bad feelings, bad events, and they're always
adaptive at first. The way I define addiction is "an adaptation to life
that has gone awry."
Addictions are not necessarily bad things, or at least they never intend to be bad things. They are ways people look to "elixers", I call them, to cope with life, bad feelings, bad events, and they're always adaptive at first.
The way I define addiction is "an adaptation to life that has gone awry." What happens over time is that adaptation goes down a wrong road or a bad road or a "Y" and the person is locked into it.