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Lance Dodes

Lance Dodes is an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst whose work focuses on addiction, compulsive behavior, and criticism of conventional treatment models. He is the author of The Heart of Addiction and Breaking Addiction and co-author of The Sober Truth, which questions standard 12-step and rehab approaches.

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Lance Dodes is an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst whose professional life unfolded through elite medical training and a long institutional career in addiction treatment. Public biographical records place him at Dartmouth College and Dartmouth Medical School before he completed his M.D. at Harvard Medical School in 1970. He later became an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard, while also directing the substance abuse treatment unit at McLean Hospital, the alcoholism treatment unit at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, and the Boston Center for Problem Gambling. Those posts gave him a broad view of both substance use and behavioral compulsions, and they also set up the central turn in his career: he became a clinician willing to question some of the addiction field’s most entrenched assumptions. ((https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_Dodes?utm_source=openai))

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In fact, "addictiveness" of any object or activity is a myth
-The Myth of "Addictiveness"
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We call such compulsive behavior an addiction
-The Psychology of Addiction
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Sadly, the "biopsychosocial" idea is doing more good for theorists than for addicts
-Is Addiction a "Biopsychosocial" Phenomenon?
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Addiction is all about seeking a remedy for overwhelming feelings of helplessness
-One Big Change: The Truth About Addictive Triggers
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Addiction is not a spiritual problem
-Spirituality and Addiction
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But in almost every case, making a promise to stop is a recipe for harm
-Promising to Stop Addictive Behavior Is a Very Bad Idea
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It follows that psychotherapy, when performed with knowledge of how addiction works psychologically, is optimal treatment for most people with addictions
-How to Know You're in a Good Therapy for Addiction
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We hear from the people who do well; we don't hear from the people who don't do well
-With Sobering Science, Doctor Debunks 12-Step Recovery

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"As always, Dr. Dodes offers a humane, science-based, global view of addiction"

Gabor Maté

"Exploding many other misconceptions about addiction, Dodes stresses that each addict must be treated separately and that the causes of helplessness vary greatly"

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"In Breaking Addiction, Dr. Dodes looks beneath the surface behaviors of addiction to root them out at their source"

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"Dr. Dodes is one with the guts to shine a beacon in the right direction"

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"Dodes (Harvard Medical Sch.) shares his refreshingly new insights into treating addictive behaviors"

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"In this courageous and pioneering text, Dr. Dodes has produced a new way of understanding addictions for patients and clinicians alike"

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"Dodes offers an original voice to the recovery field and a fresh look at a formidable problem for individuals, families and society"

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"Dodes writes with an uncommon profundity without using professional jargon and intellectual arrogance"

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"Dodes and Dodes thoughtfully and rigorously trace the history of alcohol treatment and the role of such treatment within the rehab setting"

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