What is the cognitive-behavioral perspective of addiction?
The cognitive behavioral approach to addiction really is a broad range of tools, psychological tools, that have research behind them, that have been studied and repeated over and over again. They all...
View ArticleWhat is the cognitive-behavioral approach to behavioral addiction?
First of all, it’s a distinct discipline. It is based on the assumption that thinking leads to feelings that leads to behavior. It’s sort of like a triangle. And that if you change one’s thinking about...
View ArticleHow does a cognitive behavioral therapist work with an addict?
Let’s take two examples here, one being pornography and one being gambling. How would we desensitize someone to these sort of stimuli? Let’s take the pornography first: let’s say every time a person...
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