ACT10Npack

I watch this video yesterday and find it really informing on addiction and the brain. Some of the stuff and hard to understand because it gets scientific understand how the brain deal with addiction is something that we should next. There are 9 videos total and comes out to 72 minutes watch. If you have the time to watch it then should give it a watch or at least 15 minutes of it.

ACT10Npack

Has anyone seen this video yet and if so what do you think?

Terminally Unique

It seems to me, that just as Jack Trimpey predicted would happen in "RR: The New Cure," the addiction treatment industry is finally discovering the structural model of addiction. Being of two minds, the amoral, "beastly" limbic system as the source of a pleasure-driven survival drive (he used a lion as an example), the neocortex as the seat of morality, etc.

"You feel like two different people. Part of you wants to destroy this porn addiction, but the other part of you has returned to it over and over again. Why the battle?"

Sounds like pseudo-AVRT. Not quite there yet, though, since he apparently hasn't figured out that this mentality manifests as a rational persona. He's got the balance of power between the limbic system and the neocortex backwards. Who knows, though, maybe in another decade he'll discover the Addictive Voice, and learn that while it can't be reasoned with, the neocortex can indeed permanently neutralize it.

keepfinding2

Quite interesting.

CaiHong

Hi Actionpack

Would love to watch it but YouTube in censored in China.

What is the name of the documentary?

CaiHong

Terminally Unique

OK, I just heard his definition of the Addictive Voice, and it is a little too close to the AVRT definition, almost to a tee. His use of 'never' as an exercise in drawing out the limbic response and listening for the AV recoil, as well as the transposing of the pronouns, is classic AVRT. He's definitely familiar with AVRT, but is not mentioning it, which is rather curious. Perhaps he knows he's bastardizing it by trying to mix it with surrender and advising against never saying never?

BackToSquareOne

Here's a few articles that show what goes on in the brain. :

Corrupted Choice

Is Addiction the Result of Brain Evolution? | Psychology Today

The Brain is Vulnerable to Hacking by Drugs | Psychology Today

The Pivot Point | Psychology Today

ACT10Npack

sorry but I don't know where beside youtube you can watch it. It's not a documentary. It's just a talk about the subject.