| PUTTING THE PIECES TOGETHER: Addiction Interaction Disorders
Viewers learn why both recovering individuals and therapists who deal with them must recognize and understand how multiple addictions interact. Dr. Patrick Carnes discusses how addictions do not just co-exist but how they interact and reinforce each other. This is called "Addiction Interaction Disorder" and there are criteria that can be used to indicate that clients have a problem involving the interaction of their addictions. Dr. Carnes reviews the ten criteria that are used to identify Addiction Interaction Disorder. The criteria are: Cross-Tolerance, Withdrawal Mediation, Replacement, Alternating Addiction Cycles, Masking, Ritualizing, Intensification, Numbing, Disinhibiting and Combining. Along with identifying the Addiction Interaction, Dr. Carnes reviews the importance of dealing with the core issue, whatever it is. When the core issue is not dealt with, people simply, inexorably, move from one addiction to another. *Also on DVD #10616 About Dr. Patrick Carnes... Patrick Carnes is a world-renowned speaker on addiction and recovery issues (with special expertise in the area of sex addiction). Much of the current work being done in the area of sex addiction is based on his research and studies. He is the Clinical Director for Sexual Disorders Services at The Meadows. He is also Editor of Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention, official publication of the National Council of Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity. He is the author of the best selling books: OUT OF THE SHADOWS, DON'T CALL IT LOVE, THE BETRAYAL BOND, OPEN HEARTS, SEXUAL ANOREXIA, GENTLE PATH THROUGH THE 12 STEPS and, his latest books, FACING THE SHADOW and IN THE SHADOW OF THE NET. | |||||||
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