Dependency is defined as a change in the behavior. The simple and common habit becomes a morbid and an exaggerated search for pleasure through means or substances or behaviors that result in the pathological condition. The addict loses any possibility of control over the habit.

From the point of view of the effects is useful to divide the dependence on (a) physical dependence (altered biological status) and (b) psychological dependence (altered mental state and behavior).

Physical dependence is mainly produced from neurobiological constraints and can be overcomed with relative ease. The psychic dependence, such as the difficult crux of the drug addict, requires therapeutic wide-ranging and complex lenses, often involving family members who are around the addict.

The most serious forms involve physical and psychic dependence with compulsivity. For example, the need for repeated ingestions of the drug from which it depends for re-experiencing the psychic effect and to avoid the withdrawal syndrome.

From the point of view of the causes addiction can be pathologically depended on:

drugs (drug addiction), which includes alcoholism and smoking
food (bulimia sugar addiction, binge eater disorder)
sex (sexual addiction, compulsive masturbation)
work (work-a-holic)
behaviors such as gambling (pathological gambling)
shopping (compulsive shopping)
television
Internet (Internet addiction)
video games

Pathogens dependencies include places and cultures (eradication syndrome) and also human relationships (codependency). The cigarette addiction is dealt as an “objectual” dependency, where the relationship with the object responds to a relational need.

TREATMENTS

• STRESS
• ANXIETY
• PANIC ATTACKS
• DEPRESSION
• PHOBIAS
• HYPOCHONDRIASIS
• OBSESSIONAL NEUROSIS
• SEXUAL ABUSE
• EATING DISORDERS
• PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDERS
• PERSONALITY DISORDERS
• SEXUAL DISORDERS
• SLEEP DISORDERS
• ADDICTIONS
• COUPLE’S PROBLEMS
• CHILDHOOD ISSUE
• TRAINING
• THE POST TRAUMATIC STRESS SYNDROMES
• THE BURN-OUT SYNDROME