Secret Attachments: Exposing the Roots of Addictions and Compulsions

Genes and brain chemistry may be factors in addictions and compulsions--but so are negative emotions. Everyone has unresolved negative emotions from the past, and for some of us these emotions are very problematic.
Unwittingly, addictive and compulsive individuals replay and recycle familiar, painful emotions through the events and situations of everyday life. These unresolved emotions--which include feeling refused, deprived, helpless, criticized, rejected, and abandoned--all originate in c...