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Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy Helping With Addiction Recovery

Equine-assisted psychotherapy teaches compassion through a care relationship with horses.

How to Change Your Mind

In his book, A New Approach to Addiction and Choice, Dr. Reinout Wiers examines ways to repair cognitive systems damaged by addiction.

Avatar-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Substance Use Disorders

Dr. Carolyn Easton at the University of Rochester is part of a team exploring the use of digital technologies in the treatment of substance use disorders.

Assessing the Standard Treatments for Addiction: Medication, Therapy, Substitution, and Brain Stimulation

We follow along with psychiatrist Dr. Reinout W. Wiers as he summarizes the standard treatments for addiction in his book, A New Approach to Addiction and Choice.

Akrasia and a New Approach to Addiction Recovery

Akrasia is acting against one’s own best interests, and it’s behind a new book on addiction by Dutch psychologist, Reinout W. Wiers.

Woo-Woo or Wisdom?

The more we practice, the more the brain will cooperate by producing the dopamine of anticipation to help us along the way.