Articles about Addiction

With many kinds of addiction, people think of recovery as ongoing abstinence from the substance or behaviour.

Understanding addicts and how to help them

Activity addictions may not put us at mortal risk. Still, like any addictive relationship our dreams to escape our pain become nightmares we struggle to wake from.

What does addiction care look like, not only during lockdown but, as ongoing patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Supervision for addiction work differs because of key differences in the nature of addiction work. The article outlines these differences and suggests areas of focus for ...

Personal change is sometimes necessary, despite how difficult and inconvenient it is. This article outlines the six stages of this process.

Dealing with ambivalence and the other challenges that may prevent you from admitting admitting that you have a problem with alcohol.

Movies that explore, engage, or offer insight into substance-related and addictive disorders and the social and psychological issues involved.

Movies that explore, engage, or offer insight into feeding and eating disorders and the social and psychological issues involved.

Movies that explore, engage, or offer insight into hypersexual disorder and the social and psychological issues involved.

Gaming can be addictive! How do you spot gaming disorder in teenagers and how do you differentiate it from other disorders.

Comment from a Relational Psychoanalytical Perspective on “The Mirror Transference in the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Alcoholism: A Case Report” by J. Gustafson, (199...