Les pathologies de l'excès Sexe, alcool, drogue....Les dérives nos passions

Addictive behaviour: drugs, sex, gambling? explained by two major specialists. Do all excessive behaviours depend on the same type of mechanism ? What is the common psychological disposition for all dependant personalities, whether they suffer from addictions to love, alcohol, video games Through the in-depth study of numerous true cases of many forms of addiction, Valleur and Matysiak clearly explain the mechanisms at work behind our dependencies, their origin and the logic of repetition and imitation. They also explore the possible link between resilience and addiction, sometimes considered a "passage" to maturity and independence, as well as the treatments that have the best results. A rich, informative and necessary work since the pathologies of excessive behaviour will soon become as prevalent, if not more so, as depression, a major and emblematic health problem of the 20th century.