HLTHAGE 2L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Sexual Addiction, Behavioral Addiction, Hypersexuality
2 Jan 2019
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Many addiction concepts physiological (withdrawal, tolerance, etc. ) If so, can we be addicted to anything? if eliminate physical component = yes. Peele: people can become addicted to any experience that powerfully modi es mood, using experiences to achieve desired states of being; a problem of relying on one source of grati cation. Rejected disease model, but people who felt empty or insecure more inclined. Shift to behavioural additions requires conceptual change: substance itself not the problem, but relationship with substance. Brown and grif ths" keys for behavioural addiction: Relapse: attempts to quit, person likely to resume activities with same intensity. 18-19th c: sexual matters become concern of medical science, not simply religion. Start process of looking to science to explain sexuality rather than solely religion. Connect to enlightenment science to give meaning to world (culture) Nymphomania: violent desire shown by certain women for pleasures of love making .
