Contesting Times
One factor that is important in the rise of online gambling is the inter-gambler competition. Obviously there is an overlap between competitiveness and skill but they are certainly not the same. What what role does competitiveness play in gambling and problem gambling?read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - October 30, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Mark D. Griffiths, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Betting exchanges competitiveness gambling gambling addiction Gambling skill Online gambling Online poker problem gambling Psychology of competition. ‘Deprivation-compensation’ theory Source Type: news
When Addiction Becomes the Boss
It’s always disturbing when drugs or alcohol take over a life but especially so when it happens to those we count on to be in control - the doctor, the pilot, the business executive, the judge, the attorney, among others. read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - October 29, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: David Sack, M.D. Tags: Addiction addicted doctors addicted pilots addicted professionals addiction treatment alcohol rehab alcoholics alcoholism drug addiction drug addicts drug rehab Source Type: news
A Psychodynamic Way of Understanding Addiction
Addiction is described as a defensive strategy to avoid feeling of helplessness and powerlessness. read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - October 29, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Shahram Heshmat, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Source Type: news
The Moral Ambiguity of Bliss
So what could be so bad about feeling good—I mean really, really good? Unfortunately, like so many other, all-too-complicated things in life, the whole notion of bliss is replete with ethical contradictions and inconsistencies.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - October 28, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Leon F. Seltzer, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Ethics and Morality Happiness Philosophy Source Type: news
Damned If You Do, Dead If You Don’t
If heroin use increases, death from heroin increases (as does the spread of HIV and viral hepatitis). And we should all wonder what the crackdown on prescription opioid abuse is accomplishing.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - October 28, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Mark Borigini, M.D. Tags: Addiction Health Law and Crime Self-Help chronic pain heroin death opioid overdose overcoming pain overcoming pain psychology today Source Type: news
The Real Adrenaline Junkies
BASE jumping is an extreme sport that developed from skydiving (using specially adapted parachutes to jump from fixed objects). The acronym ‘B.A.S.E.’ was coined in the late 1970s (Building, Antenna, Span [arch, bridge, or dome], and Earth (a natural formation such as a cliff). This blog takes a brief look at the personality characteristics of BASE jumpers.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - October 27, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Mark D. Griffiths, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Sport and Competition adrenaline junkies base jumping extreme sports harm avoidance Novelty seeking Risk personality Risky behaviour Sensation seeking. Source Type: news
Why We Fall Victim to Common Psychological Traps
There are many times when our social perception fails us. As a result, we are prone to make errors in our mental processing. Here are some examples of common biases in social perception and how they lead us to misjudge people and events:read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - October 26, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Ronald E. Riggio, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Behavioral Economics Cognition Social Life actor-observer bias availability bias availability heuristic biases gambler ' s fallacy heuristics mental processing psychological biases social perception Source Type: news
A Physician Shares Her Private Struggle With Food Addiction
Australian physician describes the many parallels between her experience with sugar-rich foods and substance dependence. read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - October 24, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Nicole Avena, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Diet Eating Disorders binge eating sugar Source Type: news
Why She Feels The Way She Does?
Indeed, learning to tolerate or accept negative affect as it is, and focus on problem solving are important skills for the treatment of addiction. read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - October 24, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Shahram Heshmat, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Behavioral Economics emotion self-regulation failure thinking Source Type: news
The Secret Shame of Domestic Violence
Domestic abuse is a secret shame that can ruin lives. Let the truth heal you.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - October 23, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Deborah King Tags: Addiction Relationships Charlize Theron domestic violence ray rice sean penn sexual abuse Source Type: news
Eyes on the Prize
One of the most basic structural characteristics that may determine whether someone gambles on a particular type of game in the first place is the size of the jackpot that a game has to offer. But do big jackpots stimulate people to gamble? And if people win a huge jackpot, does it make them happy?read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - October 23, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Mark D. Griffiths, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Happiness gambling Gambling stake Gambling wins Jackpot psychology Jackpots Lottery jackpot Lottery psychology Structural characteristics Source Type: news
The Drugs Made Him Do It
Do some drugs for Parkinson’s disease hijack the brain?read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - October 21, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Peg O'Connor, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Ethics and Morality Philosophy compulsive behaviors dopamine Parkinson ' s disease Source Type: news
Peyton Place Goes Digital in 'Men, Women & Children'
A couple of weeks ago I was asked by Paramount Pictures to host a pre-release screening and audience discussion of Jason Reitman’s new film Men, Women & Children at the famed ArcLight Theater in Hollywood.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - October 21, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Robert Weiss, LCSW, CSAT-S Tags: Addiction Media Parenting Relationships internet addiction online porn addiction screen addiction smartphones technology teens Source Type: news
Art as Therapy
Poetry, photography, and other forms of creative expressions should be encouraged within the therapeutic realm. If nothing else, we should at least be open to the myriad ways in which people find healing.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - October 21, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Sam Louie, MA, LMHC Tags: Addiction Creativity Race and Ethnicity Therapy Source Type: news
Dead Strange
One of the strangest and rarest mental disorders that has been studied academically is Cotard’s Syndrome. the syndrome is where individuals hold the delusional belief that they are dead (figuratively or literally) and do not exist. The characteristics of the include despair and self-loathing through to intense delusions and chronic depression. But what else do we know?read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - October 17, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Mark D. Griffiths, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Depression Capgras Syndrome Cotard Delusion ' Delusional behavior Immortality delusion Nihilistic Delusion Strange disorders Walking Corpse Syndrome zombie Source Type: news
