ABSTRACT
When people repeatedly misbehave in ways that give them pleasure or alleviate discomforts but also cause them problems, there is a tendency to label it an “addiction” or a “disease” and treat it as such. Although this model is effective at times, as indicated by the reported success of Gamblers Anonymous, our experience with such risk-taking, high pleasure behaviors is that they often are quite amenable to hypnotherapeutic interventions, even when they involve actual physiologic addictions.
