Following on from the last two days’ blogs of Can decision-making research provide a better understanding of chemical and behavioral addictions and Decision-making difficulties in gambling and eating disorders today the third and final part of this blog addresses decision making deficits in behavioral addictions of internet and sex […]
Unveiling the Hidden Self (part 2) Today we look at a clinical study (vignette) of a patient who suffered emotional neglect as a child to show how developmental trauma can dramatically affect the patient’s personality and behaviour. in this case, it led to negative expectations towards interpersonal relationships, disturbing feelings […]
A biopsychosocial view of sex addiction – Part 2 “The psychology of sex addiction There are numerous psychological factors that feed into addiction processes and into the development and continuation of sexual addiction. An understanding and exploration of the emotional and cognitive influences are important […]
OUT OF CONTROL SEXUAL BEHAVIOR AS A SYMPTOM OF INSECURE ATTACHMENT Hypersexual Disorder (Kafka, 2009). Kafka’s proposal includes the following diagnostic criteria: (1) Over a period of at least six months, recurrent and intense sexual fantasies, sexual urges, or sexual behaviors in association with three or more of […]
We have in previous blogs discussed how substance addiction seems to have emotional processing and regulation deficits at the heart of their manifestation and act as pathomechanisms in propelling these disorders to eventual chronicity. In the next series of blogs we will be discussing whether fundamental emotional processing […]
Pornography triggers brain activity in people with compulsive sexual behaviour – known commonly as sex addiction – similar to that triggered by drugs in the brains of drug addicts, according to a University of Cambridge study published in the journal PLOS ONE. Although precise estimates are unknown, previous […]
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