Behavioral Addictions

1. An Introduction to Behavioral Addictions
2. Behavioral Addiction: The Nexus of Impulsivity and Compulsivity
3. Diagnosis and Treatment of Gambling Disorder
4. Problematic Online Gaming
5. Internet Addiction Disorder: Overview and Controversies
6. Social Networking Addiction: An Overview of Preliminary Findings
7. Food Addiction: Evidence, Evaluation, and Treatment
8. New Directions in the Pharmacological Treatment of Food Addiction, Overeating, and Obesity
9. Sex Addiction: An Overview
10. The Tyranny of Love: Love Addiction - An Anthropologist's View
11. Picking Up the Pieces: Helping Partners and Family Members Survive the Impact of Sex Addiction
12. Compulsive Buying Disorder
13. Exercise Addiction
14. Meditation and Spirituality-Based Approaches for Addiction
15. Behavioral Addiction in American Law: The Future and the Expert's Role

Kenneth Paul Rosenberg, M.D., is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Public Health at the Cornell University Medical Center - New York Presbyterian Hospital and a psychiatrist in private practice. He graduated from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed his psychiatry residency and fellowship at Cornell Medical Center. Dr. Rosenberg is a contributing editor of the Journal of Sex Therapy, the author of scientific and lay articles, listed among the Best Doctors® in America and New York Magazine's Best Doctors, a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and the recipient of medical and public service awards from the American Medical Association, American Psychiatric Association and the Alliance for the Mentally Ill.
Since medical school, Dr. Rosenberg has produced and directed films that have been aired on HBO and PBS affiliates and have been recognized by the Academy for Television Arts and Sciences, the Academy for Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the American Museum of Natural History and numerous film festivals. He is a recipient of the George Foster Peabody Award. His films include An Alzheimer's Story (coproducer/director, PBS affiliates 1985), Through Madness: The Subjective Experience of Psychosis (producer/director, PBS Affiliates, 1991) Why Am I Gay?: Stories of Coming Out in America, (producer/director, HBO, 1993) Back From Madness (producer/director, HBO.1996), Drinking Apart: Families Living Under the Influence, (producer/director/cinematographer, HBO, 2000) and Cancer (executive producer, HBO,2000) and in producing a current HBO-commissioned project on mental illness in America. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0742255/