Dr. Stephanie Brown, a licensed psychologist and addiction expert with over 40 years of experience, delves into the hidden threat of speed addiction in modern society. She describes addiction as a conflict within oneself and discusses our struggle to accept limitations as a key issue. The conversation explores the impact of technology on emotional connections and advocates for slowing down to foster genuine relationships. Dr. Brown shares strategies for overcoming this contemporary addiction, emphasizing introspection and the importance of human connection.
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Personal Recovery Shapes A Career
Stephanie Brown describes growing up with two alcoholic parents and becoming a recovering alcoholic herself.
Her personal recovery shaped her lifelong work asking new questions about addiction and control.
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Addiction As An Inner War
Addiction is framed as an internal battleground driven by grandiosity and denial of limits.
Speed culture amplifies this by valorizing no-limits thinking and constant escalation.
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Society Mirrors Addicted Minds
Society mirrors addicted minds by celebrating speed, grandiosity, and never-ending progress.
Manifest Destiny and exceptionalism fuel a cultural refusal to accept limits.
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Dr Brown is a licensed psychologist with more than 40 years of clinical experience, a researcher, and lecturer in the field of addiction.
She is an internationally recognised expert on treatment of alcoholics, adult children of alcoholics and all addicts and their families.
Dr Brown is the author of eleven academic and popular books on addiction and recovery, including her 2014 book: Speed, which this interview focuses on.
In this conversation, we explore:
— The invisible and insidious addiction to speed that has slowly been taking hold in Western Culture, and how this is causing widespread mental health problems
— Dr Brown’s definition of addiction as: “A deep self destructive conflict of interest” and a “war within the self”
— Why our inability to face and embrace our limitations may be the central issue in addiction and how this is causing us to lose control
— Strategies for overcoming speed addiction in therapeutic work.
And more.
You can learn more about Dr Brown’s work at: https://stephaniebrownphd.com.
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Stephanie Brown, PhD, is a distinguished figure in the addiction field, renowned as a clinician, educator, author, and researcher. In 1977, she pioneered the Alcohol Clinic at Stanford University Medical Center, where she held the helm for eight years. Dr. Brown's groundbreaking work led to the development of the dynamic model for alcoholism recovery, a paradigm she skillfully applied to the long-term treatment of entire alcoholic families. She played a pivotal role in the California State Alcoholism Advisory Board and co-founded the National Association for Children of Addiction (NACoA). Throughout her career, she earned numerous accolades, including the Norman Zinberg Memorial Award and the Miracles Breakfast Constellation Behavioral Health Hope Tribute Award.
To delve deeper into her impactful journey through her book and website, you can go to https://www.stephaniebrownphd.com/about.
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Books Dr Brown Recommends Every Therapist Should Read:
— The Cybernetics of "Self": A Theory of Alcoholism — Gregory Bateson - https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1971-29301-001
— Drinking: A Love Story — Caroline Knapp - https://amzn.to/3rltmPz
— Speed: Facing Our Addiction to Fast and Faster- And Overcoming Our Fear of Slowing Down — Stephanie Brown - https://amzn.to/3NEStoe
— reStart (Training Program) — Dr. Hilarie Cash - https://www.restartlife.com/why-trust-restart/
— Video Games & Your Kids: How Parents Stay in Control — Dr. Hilarie Cash - https://amzn.to/3PMI6By
— Child, Disrupted — Krista Riihimaki - https://www.childdisrupted.com/trailer
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