Dublin, Ireland

Addiction Counselling & Psychotherapy

Master's
Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: economy and administration
Qualification: UK Level 7
Degree - Masters at UK Level 7
University website: www.pcicollege.ie/
Addiction
Addiction is a brain disorder characterized by compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli despite adverse consequences. Despite the involvement of a number of psychosocial factors, a biological process – one which is induced by repeated exposure to an addictive stimulus – is the core pathology that drives the development and maintenance of an addiction. The two properties that characterize all addictive stimuli are that they are reinforcing (i.e., they increase the likelihood that a person will seek repeated exposure to them) and intrinsically rewarding (i.e., they are perceived as being inherently positive, desirable, and pleasurable).
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy is the use of psychological methods, particularly when based on regular personal interaction, to help a person change behavior and overcome problems in desired ways. Psychotherapy aims to improve an individual's well-being and mental health, to resolve or mitigate troublesome behaviors, beliefs, compulsions, thoughts, or emotions, and to improve relationships and social skills. Certain psychotherapies are considered evidence-based for treating some diagnosed mental disorders. Others have been criticized as pseudoscience.
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy may begin with the primitive, but it must end with the divine, for both are integral factors in the human mind.
Violet M. Firth, (Dion Fortune) (1922), The Machinery of the Mind. p. 98
Psychotherapy
If we are to put interrogators to work in defence of liberal values, their role in the community must receive proper recognition. They will require intensive counselling to overcome the inevitable traumas that this difficult work involves. They must be enabled to see themselves as dedicated workers in the cause of progress. Psychotherapy must be available to help them avoid the negative self-image from which some torturers have suffered in the past.
John N. Gray, "A Modest Proposal," New Statesman, February 17, 2003
Psychotherapy
There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
David Levy, Humor in Psychotherapy (2007)
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