Guest: Jonathan Berent

Addiction as Romance with Jonathan Berent July 16, 2013

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Jonathan Berent

Armand DiMele reframes addiction as a romance, arguing that substances and compulsive behaviors offer the unconditional love that people fail to find elsewhere. Social anxiety specialist Jonathan Berent then joins to discuss shyness, social phobia, selective mutism, and why avoidance only deepens over time.