What are the top 3 ways Psychology helps patients fight with their addiction?

What are the top 3 ways Psychology helps patients fight with their addiction?

Recently, I was featured on an addiction treatment centre’s website — asking 9 top psychologists around the world, to explain the role of therapy in addiction treatment:

Here is the site (https://www.choicepointhealth.com/top-9-psychologists.../) and this is what I wrote:

What actually leads to addiction?

Events in adulthood:

Adults don’t often realise they can turn to some form of addiction not only to escape pain or reality but that sometimes life can be like the needle on a vinyl record player that has jumped a groove when suddenly life can take a different and possibly unexpected turn. It’s when events in adulthood can trigger what we thought we had left behind or escaped from.

This is because childhood dysfunction, abandonment, loss, or trauma can sometimes leave us with forgotten emotional scars that cause some to feel utterly lost, lonely, and disconnected from either their parents, families, or, indeed, themselves.

Also, childhood trauma may have caused much shame. It may have induced a conscious or unconscious self-hatred that requires constant reminding through various forms…