ABSTRACT
This chapter moves on to discuss the plasticity of the brain and the potential addictive nature of online pornography for both neurotypical and neurodivergent individuals with predisposing factors. It discusses the adolescent neural changes and highlights the damaged caused by children and adolescent’s compulsive viewing of online pornography. It overviews the debate between compulsive and addictive behaviours, suggesting they are two distinct systems. It elucidates neurodiversity as being a predisposing factor, together with adverse childhood experiences. How will our understanding of this effect the therapeutic process, and how will the therapist help Gordon access the emotional parts of his brain that he had shut down in early infancy (actually pre-birth) as a survival mechanism? In the case study review, the formulation to provide the template for the therapeutic work is laid out.
