Author’s note: I believe this topic has huge implications for putting the “lies of addicts” into a proper perspective. This explains how neuroscience and behavioral economics are showing much of the “dishonesty” that we complain about with addicts is overdone and inflated based on these fundamental brain errors: I remember being a student at Notre [...]

In a world where the Dr. Drew-like rehab shows flood the airwaves with visuals of the craziness of chemical imbalances, America has become inundated with the perils of drugs and alcohol. Certainly, the pain is horrible for those suffering and their loved ones. But from a neuroscience angle, I am most curious about what predisposes [...]

James Hillman once said in his provocative book of the same title, “We’ve had a hundred years of psychotherapy and the world’s getting worse.” Though many would take issue with this satirical, yet telling title, one does begin to wonder how well we are doing in the grand scheme of things related to reducing pain [...]

As appeared on BehavioralHealthCentral.com, May 4, 2010 In this thought-provoking series, I will share the stuff of addiction that is in between the lines — the afterhours thoughts, if you will, the bubbles above our heads. Not that training, education and all sorts of counseling are not helpful. Of course they are. But in the [...]