Posts Categorized: socialization

What is Addiction?

Addiction is in the news a lot these days, particularly if you live in Toronto as I do. In the last decade we have opened up the way we understand addiction – a term we used to reserve only for chemical substances – to include such non-chemical things as internet porn addiction, retail consumption, video… Read more »

Louis C.K., Cellphones, and Psychotherapy

Test Test Test… Yes, you are reading that correctly. What, you may ask, do Louis C.K., cellphones, and psychotherapy have in common? Well, the popular YouTube clip (below) in which comedian Louis C.K. rants about how our compulsion to use cellphones is getting in the way of our humanness hits the very target that psychotherapy… Read more »