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Urges, Triggers, and Relapses

Negative habits

Urges, Triggers, and Relapses

Your brain won’t ever forget an old habit entirely, but it can build a new one, eventually a very strong one, in place of the old one, and the old habit can become weaker.

Controversies Regarding Willpower and Sexual Addiction

Controversies Regarding Willpower and Sexual Addiction

Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky are two of my scientist heroes. Together, they created the field of behavioral economics, because their subject matter was about how people make decisions, sometimes against their own best interests, and frequently irrationally, but predictably. Their work, for which Kahneman won the Nobel Prize (Tversky

Inventions and Addictions

Inventions and Addictions

I had a professor many years ago who claimed that the invention of distilled spirits kicked off an epidemic of alcoholism the world had never seen before. He said that almost all cultures centuries before that time had fermented drinks, especially low alcohol-content beer and wine. Drinking to excess was

Yoda, Luke, The Force, and Willpower

Yoda, Luke, The Force, and Willpower

Pretty catchy title for this piece, eh? Sometimes I get a little silly. Luke employing the Force in Starwars, and those of us using willpower here on earth, do not at first glance have much in common. The Force seems magical. It’s science fiction, after all. It affects other

Willpwr Confidentiality

Willpwr Confidentiality

What is especially innovative about our Willpwr apps is that they learn about you as you use them and they tailor their advice to fit your specific circumstances. Now to do that, we need to keep track of when and where a user presses an urge button or an “oops”

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I've been a psychotherapist for over thirty years. I have to say that I've been disappointed with the effectiveness of traditional therapies when it comes to ending addictions and negative habits. The knowledge is there: We've learned a lot about brain mechanisms underlying addictions,