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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Articles by this Author
Video: If I want to stop my behavioral addiction on my own, what should be my first step?
- By Marc F. Kern
- Published 05/7/2008
- Marc F. Kern videos
- Unrated
The first thing I would recommend is, without shame, without blame, and
without putting yourself down, stand back, get out a spreadsheet or a
piece of graph paper and start to just graph how often and the
frequency of when you engage in this particular behavior.
Video: What type of person is at risk of becoming a gaming addict?
- By Marc F. Kern
- Published 04/18/2008
- Marc F. Kern videos
- Unrated
Generally speaking, like all addictions, a lot of the risk involved in
becoming a gaming addict lies in the familiarity and the endorsement
within the family, for example, if you live in a household where
there's few things that make you feel good about yourself.
Video: Can an electronic game function like a drug?
- By Marc F. Kern
- Published 04/18/2008
- Marc F. Kern videos , Internet addiction
- Unrated
Yes, I'm a big believer that a video game, a computer, can act
identically as a drug. As our brain imagery technology improves we're
going to be able to see that the exact same centers of the brain are
lit up for a drug, as a video game, as a computer game.
Video: What causes "internet gaming addiction"?
- By Marc F. Kern
- Published 04/18/2008
- Marc F. Kern videos , Internet addiction
- Unrated
The causes are really not clear about internet or gaming addictions
because, in part, it is a such a new technology. But I think that we're
going to find that it essentially holds the same dynamics that cause
many other addictions.
Video: What is "computer game addiction"?
- By Marc F. Kern
- Published 04/18/2008
- Marc F. Kern videos , Internet addiction
- Unrated
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.
Video: What are the dangers of pornography addiction?
- By Marc F. Kern
- Published 04/18/2008
- Marc F. Kern videos , Internet addiction
- Unrated
In the harm reduction model, it is not inappropriate for a
pornography addict to look at pornography and spend money on
pornography. And the goal would be to spend less and to be involved less.
Video: What is "pornography addiction"?
- By Marc F. Kern
- Published 04/18/2008
- Marc F. Kern videos , Internet addiction
- Unrated
Pornography addiction is just a variant as I would see it, of sexual
addiction, but it's primarily not with a human being. It's with
pictures and images and of course the internet plays a big role in the
availability of it and it often involves a great expense.
Video: Can sex addicts be involved in loving relationships?
- By Marc F. Kern
- Published 04/18/2008
- Marc F. Kern videos , Relationships
- Unrated
It's my experience that true sex addicts, love addicts, do not have the
tools to have healthy, ongoing, ebb and flow relationships.
Video: What causes love addiction?
- By Marc F. Kern
- Published 04/18/2008
- Relationships , Marc F. Kern videos
- Unrated
Generally speaking, women who've grown up with a battering father often
get into battering relationships, sort of like an addiction. Or sex
becomes a preoccupation.
Video: What is "love addiction"?
- By Marc F. Kern
- Published 04/18/2008
- Relationships , Marc F. Kern videos
- Unrated
It is generally not seen as a healthy preoccupation with another
individual. It's seen as sort of a mechanical, almost using, of the
other to get a particular emotional experience inside.
