How 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 sees pornography, there’s a sort of a “light bulb” that goes on inside and they fantasize about a woman or doing certain [...]
What 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 something, you can change the way they feel about it. You can change the way feel about it, you [...]
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 seem to involve an emphasis on focusing on the thinking as it leads to behavior or the thinking as it leads to feelings. [...]