What is the “holistic approach” to behavioral addiction?
The holistic approach to addiction is, again, very much a bio-psychosocial approach, but the emphasis is more on recovery. Recovery is expanded and the tools that are brought to a recovery program or person are quite a bit broader. They include alternative medicine methods, Eastern philosophies, and literally anything that’ll work for behavioural addiction. There is not an emphasis on Western approaches or particular theories of psychology, but more of an Eastern, maybe even a sort of a little bit of Buddhist sort of thinking about mind, body, spirit, and things like that.
