1: In Reality, every addictive act is preceded by a feeling of helplessness or powerlessness
2: In Fantasy, addictive behaviour will repair this underlying fear of helplessness
3: Involved in every addictive act is a fantasy belief of the Child (ego state)
4: Following Berne, we believe that addiction can be tied to the game formula inter-personally (and by extension intra-psychically)
5: We create an object’s addictive properties
6: The cure for addiction involves new values
Richard Mottram and Christopher Anderson The Cumbria Counselling Group
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