We recover, as do our families and our communities. FIRST NATIONAL UK SURVEY OF ADDICTION RECOVERY EXPERIENCES Professor David Best and a colleagues from Sheffield Hallam University in partnership with Action on Addiction have conducted the first national UK Life in Recovery survey. The survey was based on similar […]
In this blogsite 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 a model […]
We generally have a lot of time for ASAM and their sometimes long winded definitions of addiction. Their new definition of Addiction is as “a chronic brain disorder and not simply a behavior problem…and also describes addiction as a primary disease, meaning that it’s not the result of […]
Source: Appetite Hormones Play a Role in Alcohol Dependence and Craving via @NIDAnews
Source: Enzyme malfunction may be why binge drinking can lead to alcoholism, study finds — ScienceDaily
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 […]
Unveiling the hidden self: Developmental trauma and pathological shame Part 1 In this blog we and cite and use excerpts from an excellent paper we came across recently on ResearchGate This article (1) focuses on the role played by developmental trauma in generating impairing feelings of shame as […]
Part 2 Shame is closely related to humiliation. Stoller (1987) states…” “Humiliation is deeper, more hidden in muscle, bone and mind; often more dangerous to others (as in paranoidness), more likely to provoke retaliation…” In the experience of shame, the individual loses his or her cherished sense […]
Part 1 “Shame is on the face, on the front of the soul. (Stoller, 1987, p. 304)” It is proposed in this excellent review (1) that that there are acute and prolonged states of post-traumatic shame and guilt that can be compared in their consequences across […]
Part 3 Alcoholics anonymous: a model of effective social intervention for alcohol abuse. If the SIMOR model accurately represents the social identity transition in recovery, then the social processes identified as critical in recovery from addiction should be evident in successful recovery group-based, peer-driven programs. In this regard, AA […]
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