even by the sternest stoic, or the most subtle metaphysician, has attained universal assent, rather as an article of sensation than of science ; as being the compulsion of experience, more than the result of enquiry. Some men may call in question the liberty of the human will ; and others may weave a fine spun chain of arguments against the existence of matter and the reality of an external wor...

This study had three objectives: first, to investigate the relative importance of mindfulness facets negative affect (NA) among patients with chronic pain; second, test monitor and acceptance theory that observing is associated lower NA only if occurs in an accepting manner; third, relation between obsessive–compulsive symptoms (OCS). One hundred nineteen musculoskeletal pain completed Five-Fac...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Sexual addiction, also known as hypersexual disorder, is associated with serious psychosocial problems for many people. METHODS This study used questionnaires to investigate the effects of gender, sexual orientation and attachment (avoidance and anxiety) on sexual compulsion among 100 heterosexual and homosexual men and women. RESULTS A positive correlation was found bet...

In 1976 Edwards & Gross described for the first time the alcohol dependence syndrome. The description is innovative and constitutes a genuine attempt to adapt clinical thought about alcohol problems to recent epidemiological findings that contradict some of the ideas associated with the traditional disease concept of alcoholism (see Jellinek, I960). The syndrome is proposed not as an all-or-non...

“A twelve-step program is a set of guiding principles outlining a course of action for recovery from addiction, compulsion, or other behavioral problems. Originally proposed by Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) as a method of recovery from alcoholism ... The method was then adapted and became the foundation of other twelve-step programs such as Narcotics Anonymous, Overeaters Anonymous, Co-Dependents A...

In spite of a hundred year long history of scientific research compulsive buying has been a hardly known phenomenon until today. Ambiguous scientific information makes it impossible to classify compulsive buying as a separate mental disorder. Recently many researchers have noticed phenomenological compatibility of compulsive buying with behavioural addictions. Nowadays, there is reasonable grou...