Keys To Recovery Interview
I was delighted to be asked and honored to take part in one of the excellent “The Hope Interviews” with Steve Jones for the recovery newspaper “Keys to Recovey”
Explaining Loss Of Control over Drinking
Although loss of control over drinking is central to anecdotal accounts of alcoholics’ impaired ability to control their drinking once they have started or to stay stopped from drinking for intended periods of time as this excellent review suggests “Impaired control, defined as “a breakdown of an […]
The Motivational Voice Of Alcoholism
Alcoholism, not alcoholwasm I am moved to write this blog and to continue writing about Alcoholism in general due to a newspaper article I read in the last few months by the writer, Tanya Gold, a recovering alcoholic with 15 years recovery. https://www.theguardian.com/profile/tanyagold I was inspired […]
Part 2 – The effectiveness of EMDR therapy on clients with addictions
We conclude our blog –The effectiveness of EMDR therapy on clients with addictions – part 1 – looking at the findings and the discussion of the study we looked at in detail yesterday (1) Findings… the results of the data analysis are presented. A few fundamental […]
The Same but Different – Emotion Dysregulation across psychopathology
Emotion-regulation strategies across psychopathology: A meta-analytic review. Following on from our recent blogs we cite and paraphrase an article (1) from a five years ago which suggests that there are similar issues of emotion dysregulation which are pertinent in a range of disorders including addictive behaviours but […]
A New Addiction Research Agenda
In the next few weeks we will be asking and attempting to give answers to the following questions 1. What is addictive behaviour? 2. How is it defined? 3. What are the neurobiological models of addiction – dopaminergic positive reinforcement models, stress based negative reinforcement models and thirdly […]
How Insecure Attachment Effects the Neglected Brain
Following our from our blog Is Addiction an Attachment Disorder? we look at a videos that explains a figure in this blog by Dr Perry which shows the different levels of the brain and illustrates how brains may be affected by neglect and and insecure attachment. These are […]
The Thrill Comes, Goes and is Gone!
The Predictive Value of Alexithymia in Patients with Eating Disorders
Here we look at emotion processing deficits in eating disorders and whether the extent of these difficulties can predict treatment outcome three years later. This would demonstrate the ongoing role of emotion processing, as conceptualised as alexithymia, plays an ongoing role in the pathomechanism driving eating disorders. This […]
Commonalities Across Various Addictive Behaviours
In the first of many blog on the commonalities in different additive behaviours we briefly consider whether there are brain mechanism similarities in different addictive of obsessive compulsive behaviours. People affected by binge eating, substance abuse and obsessive compulsive disorder all share a common pattern of decision making […]
Inside The Alcoholic Brain 
Recent Comments