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Why did you become an expert of behavioural addiction?
I was doing a PhD about impulsivity. So basically impulsivity is when you cannot refrain your behaviours or your ebit, and at some point I wanted to focus on behaviours that are characterised by impulsivity and then gaming consumption of porn. Those kind activity were a very good target if you want to study impulsivity and decision making, and this is why I started to focus on that.
What is your background?
I am a psychologist. I have a PhD in psychological science. I am working at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, where I teach clinical psychology and psychopathology. I am trained as a CBT therapist and in terms of research and clinical work, I specialised in the study of behavioural addiction that is non substantial related addiction, and also with a focus on online addictive behaviours or tech addictions.
What are the most common forms of addictive behaviours?
So the one common form of addictive behaviours is addiction to alcohol and addiction to tobacco. But there are also a lot of other forms of very common addiction like addiction to medications like painkillers, but also addiction to behaviours such as gambling, which are also very prevalent in our society. Just have to know that it also depends of the countries. In some countries, for example, alcohol is ban, so there is less of this problem in those countries. So there are also important international or country differences.