Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of “Eat, Pray, Love,” delves into her struggle with an obsessive relationship in a new memoir. By Christina Caron In Elizabeth Gilbert’s third memoir, “All the Way to the ...

The term "medicalization" was popularized by the Catholic philosopher and social critic Ivan Illich. Illich was troubled by the way in which what was formerly regarded as deviant behavior had come to ...

Dingle and colleagues explored the influence of addiction and addiction treatment on identity. They interviewed 21 people in a treatment community and found two distinct pathways, from pre-addiction ...

When I entered rehab at 23, I learned that trauma was a thread woven into most addiction stories. Many people in my program described horrific neglect or maltreatment, including sexual abuse, they had ...