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Video: What is the "psychodynamic perspective" of behavioral addiction?
The psychodynamic perspective of addiction comes out of the famous Dr. Freud. It originated approximately 100 years ago and it's based on the assumption - and there are some parallels within the cogni…
Posted on Fri, 04/18/2008 - 03:00
Video: What causes shopping addiction?
Shopping addiction is caused by, primarily, the fact that you can get a physiological perk from buying something which initially you want. Even down the road, people with shopping addictions find they…
Posted on Fri, 04/18/2008 - 03:00
Video: What is the "disease model" approach to behavioral addiction?
There are many reasons that people think addiction is a disease; a lot of really actually good reasons that we think addiction is a disease. Modern technology has given us the opportunity to look insi…
Posted on Fri, 04/18/2008 - 03:00
Video: What is "love addiction"?
Love addiction is about the extreme of it. It is not really about love. It's about, again, feeling good and getting that feeling through an obsessive-compulsive way. It is really not about what we wou…
Posted on Fri, 04/18/2008 - 03:00
Video: What type of person is at risk of becoming a gaming addict?
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 w…
Posted on Fri, 04/18/2008 - 03:00
Video: Can an electronic game function like a drug?
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 ar…
Posted on Fri, 04/18/2008 - 03:00
Video: What is "behavioral addiction"?
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…
Posted on Fri, 04/18/2008 - 03:00
Video: What is work addiction?
Work addiction is where the individual spends most of their time and most of their focus on work. Work is the place they get good feelings, work is the place they get rewarded, work is the place they …
Posted on Fri, 04/18/2008 - 03:00
Video: Are men and women equally prone to exercise addiction?
I think in our culture men and women are equally prone to exercise addiction. It probably is about the same motive, about vanity, and health and things like that, and putting yourself in the right sit…
Posted on Fri, 04/18/2008 - 03:00
Video: What does "desensitizing" mean for a behavioral addict?
We can use the scenario of every time one sees a video screen, one fantasizes about sitting down and playing on it. This behavioral addiction is called learned association, and desensitizing a behavio…
Posted on Fri, 04/18/2008 - 03:00
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