Everyone, everywhere has had struggles with being enslaved to something (a thing, idea, habit, etc.). One of the first steps to doing violence to such a problem is to understand the pattern in your life. When we first become aware that something has us, grips us, we often are not fully aware of how we cycle through the pattern. Here’s how I help people identify the cycle of their addiction. Some of my material came from Patrick Carnes work. Continue reading
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Science Monday: is the APA afraid of internet porn?
This week my students are exploring the world of addiction. In prep for class, I did a little search on PsychARTICLES regarding Internet over-usage/addiction and pornography usage. PsychARTICLES contains a full-text database of 60 APA peer-reviewed journals from the 1870s to the present. As of February 2007, it contained 121,000 articles. Here’s what I found. NOTHING. Continue reading
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