Tag: instincts
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Porn Addiction as Instinctual Confusion
Any addiction; porn addiction, alcohol addiction, gambling addiction, food addiction and so on, by definition has a self- destructive aspect. Gabor Mate writes on addiction: “The aching emptiness is perpetual because the substances, objects or pursuits we hope will soothe it are not what we really need. We don’t know what we need, and so…
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Sex Therapist or Regular Psychotherapist?
When any of our instinctual functions are out of balance, we can look a little deeper to find sources of emotional and physiological disruption. Sexuality is an instinct of human nature, similar to how we eat, how we care for ourselves, and how we sleep at night. It may show itself as a sexual problem…
