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In Search of the Healthy High

In Search of the Healthy High

by David Bowman, LMFT | May 1, 2018 | Featured, Recovery, Recovery Journal, Therapy

Jungian therapists see the roots of addiction growing in the need to escape the loneliness of human existence. In “The Art of Loving,” Erich Fromm show us how we manufacture romance, and even love, as palliatives for the pain and anguish of being alone in...

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