Video: What is "computer game 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
We have a new tool in our society that no other society has had and that is a way to change the way we feel via a computer or a game or something mechanical like that.
It's never existed in history before and now we have it, and these addictions that we're all very free about labeling everything addiction but it's just a new technology that has offered us a way of utilizing a machine to change the way we feel inside to a point where we self entrap ourselves.
We have a new tool in our society that no other society has had and
that is a way to change the way we feel via a computer or a game or
something mechanical like that.
We have a new tool in our society that no other society has had and that is a way to change the way we feel via a computer or a game or something mechanical like that.
It's never existed in history before and now we have it, and these addictions that we're all very free about labeling everything addiction but it's just a new technology that has offered us a way of utilizing a machine to change the way we feel inside to a point where we self entrap ourselves.