Overcoming Addiction with Neuroscience & IFS - Dr Marc Lewis

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Dr Marc Lewis is a neuroscientist, professor, bestselling author, and one of the world’s leading experts on the neuroscience of addiction. In his academic work, he has authored or coauthored more than fifty journal articles, and for many years was a professor of developmental psychology at the University of Toronto before retiring.
In recent years, he has focused on making his work more accessible to a wider audience through public talks and interviews. He is the author of two bestselling books on addiction: “Memoirs of an Addicted Brain” and “The Biology of Desire”, a book which Dr Gabor Mate argues “effectively refutes the disease model of addiction.”
In this wide ranging conversation, we cover:
- Marc’s background and his own early struggles with addiction
- Why traumas (particularly in early life) often lead to addictive behaviour
- What happens in the brain during addiction
- Why internal family systems therapy offers an effective solution
- How developing a stronger connection to your “future self” can help overcome addiction
And a whole lot more.
You can learn more about Marc’s work on his website: www.memoirsofanaddictedbrain.com/
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  • @sagardia8891
    @sagardia8891 Жыл бұрын

    "...I couldn´t get control of it as long as I felt it was a desease..." That is exactlyx what I feel.

  • @davidscott9175
    @davidscott91752 жыл бұрын

    It's a shame that this video hasn't been viewed about a million more times, brilliant!

  • @YaSynAmRaUi

    @YaSynAmRaUi

    3 ай бұрын

    Watch it a million times then

  • @amandasilcox3521
    @amandasilcox35212 жыл бұрын

    This is inspiring for me! As I am am addict in recovery who is pursuing a psychology degree!

  • @QLNcoaching

    @QLNcoaching

    2 ай бұрын

    Way to go. I been working in a recovery model that is based on neuro based model

  • @jgarciajr82
    @jgarciajr823 жыл бұрын

    That's crazy. I'm over alcohol as an addiction but I'm slowly getting over weed. This disassociation is very interesting. Meditation has been helping me tremendously to disassociate and feel everything in a way.

  • @dhardy6654

    @dhardy6654

    2 жыл бұрын

    When I quit drinking, I started a log where I'd document crazy thoughts. Date, time, brief description.... Then if I was high when I had the thought. I'd right +P behind it. It didn't take too long, maybe a week or two any almost all the log entries had +p behind them. That's when I decided it wasn't good for me. The best book I've read on marijuana is Tell Your Children the Truth about Marijuana and mental illnesses... By Alex Berenson.

  • @lindapowers3370
    @lindapowers33704 ай бұрын

    So happy to have discovered Marc Lewis and his work! Extremely helpful 🙌

  • @deslongchampsrecovery476
    @deslongchampsrecovery4762 жыл бұрын

    We use some of Dr. Mar Lewis teachings in our program at Deslongchamps Recovery.

  • @sagardia8891

    @sagardia8891

    Жыл бұрын

    Thats `s interesting. Can you elaborate?

  • @trueself520
    @trueself5202 жыл бұрын

    You touched on what I have been trying to apply with my daughter who is into drugs that I learned from the CRAFT method. I have been trying to focus on her positive moments and rewards, no matter how small, to help increase her positive reactions. Also I try to present options that will help to lead to bigger rewards for her. I feel that if you feel like there are no options, whether you are addicted or not, only serves to close the door for changes and moving forward. That is when you give up. I wish I had an opportunity to talk with you, Dr. Lewis. Thank you for sharing your insight.

  • @Matterful

    @Matterful

    7 ай бұрын

    I hope you and your daughter are doing well. Thank you for caring.

  • @candytwiggytwist3506
    @candytwiggytwist35063 жыл бұрын

    What an amazing person! I loved this hour spent here with you :)

  • @Han_Far
    @Han_Far2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for this..

  • @svetlanalazovskaya6912
    @svetlanalazovskaya69123 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for an amazing interview.

  • @tommydinob
    @tommydinob2 жыл бұрын

    The interviewer doesn’t seem to be listening. The first question he asks is about the doctor’s dedication to a lifetime of work in neuroscience. This question comes right after the doctor just explained that he only studied neuroscience after a career in academia focused on cognitive psychology.

  • @MrSunrise-

    @MrSunrise-

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, he really really didn't do his homework. Marc very graciously ignored his gaffes.

  • @allygriffiths4750
    @allygriffiths47506 ай бұрын

    You are so lucky you are such a strong person.

  • @NicolaJWilliams
    @NicolaJWilliams3 жыл бұрын

    Well worth a listen.. really interesting & will have to give this another listen :)

  • @Ciskuss
    @Ciskuss3 жыл бұрын

    Nice talk i love IFS. But what about splitting as a defense mechanism? IFS encourage splitting or not?

  • @allygriffiths4750
    @allygriffiths47506 ай бұрын

    Thank goodness this is 4 Years old cause you are so full of you know what.

  • @YaSynAmRaUi

    @YaSynAmRaUi

    3 ай бұрын

    ????

  • @YaSynAmRaUi

    @YaSynAmRaUi

    3 ай бұрын

    Are you angry that he makes getting over addiction seem easy while it seems impossible to you? Perhaps you also think addicts are different from normal people? That you have an addictive personality. That IFS perhaps isn't nearly as helpful as Marc claims it to be?

  • @cathycarr8085
    @cathycarr80853 ай бұрын

    You didn’t mention the exile who is usually protected by the other parts.

  • @elliotthyde5623
    @elliotthyde56232 жыл бұрын

    Coke heads usually stop at 4 yrs. I’ve now been smashing it for over 20 yrs and I hate it. Extremely paranoid when on it. Deep regret after. Huge debt. What am I doing wrong.

  • @carlaraimer718
    @carlaraimer7183 жыл бұрын

    spot on 🌈🙏🏼💜

  • @allygriffiths4750
    @allygriffiths47506 ай бұрын

    I would like to know your thoughts on Naltrexone.

  • @Justybow
    @JustybowАй бұрын

    34:00 IFS

  • @keithnewton9794
    @keithnewton97946 ай бұрын

    Maybe some and most forms of addiction subscribe to this theory, but there are some of us who have developed well past it being a matter of learned behaviour. I think at some point the physiological changes that the disease theory point too do beings to come into play.

  • @hectorwahken5925
    @hectorwahken59252 жыл бұрын

    Do you have the part in you that tries to fix or work on yourself or even itself and the other parts in you that dislike or resist that part

  • @ludmilamaiolini6811

    @ludmilamaiolini6811

    Жыл бұрын

    You might have managers that are working hard to keep everything together, and they usually try to control the other parts that aren’t on board with that idea. But those controlling managers aren’t the Self, and the parts the resist aren’t bad, they are probably doing what they do for a reason

  • @goodvibez598
    @goodvibez5982 жыл бұрын

    Don't you want to found a self support group...similar to AA....just without any AA powerless ideas...that would be a bless Sir.

  • @oldguyathletics

    @oldguyathletics

    6 ай бұрын

    check out The Freedom Model -30 years of research and the best thing I found. AA is not necessary to "maintain" sobriety. Ask yourself - do former smokers need to go to meetings to maintain a smoke free life -NO they don't

  • @goodvibez598

    @goodvibez598

    6 ай бұрын

    @@oldguyathletics Going deep now...ain't helpful if someone is in need of urgent and uncomplicated help. Aiming for sobriety maintenance one can do if one is sober in the first place. But I heard your argument quite often in SMART Recovery.... the only thing I ve got my problems with what was said there. Because Nicotine and Alcohol are complete different pair of shoes...as substance. Never heard someone saying....Damb I woke up in police custody accused of body harm and I don't remember and I m not a violent person....all this happened I had my 1st cigarette after 3 month not smoking

  • @oldguyathletics

    @oldguyathletics

    6 ай бұрын

    @@goodvibez598 I hear that argument.

  • @oldguyathletics

    @oldguyathletics

    6 ай бұрын

    However, the first cigarette or drink is a choice. Believing you are powerless over substances - that is where the bullshit rationalizing starts. If you woke up in a police station cuz you drank too much you made a f****** poor choice.

  • @lenorepaletta9267

    @lenorepaletta9267

    23 күн бұрын

    Try rational recovery, it’s a book or smart recovery.

  • @Ironbull200
    @Ironbull2002 жыл бұрын

    36:55

  • @dhardy6654
    @dhardy66542 жыл бұрын

    I disagree with Marc Lewis concept of addiction is deep learning. But I find his concept of deep learning very useful to recovery. Example, what my addiction gave me was deep learning and that by engagement after cessation of substance used I was able to contract the "deep learning" that and correct it. Id try to explain it like I had to do everything while in recovery once that was connected to his "deep learning" wrong things... To learn the right things. I wish more research was done on recovery... Things past the active addiction phase.... Things part early recovery to better understand what I'm trying to explain.

  • @zacharyzimmerman5721

    @zacharyzimmerman5721

    2 жыл бұрын

    Deep learning in that all of our conscious life experiences are learning indeed. We learn about a reality we live in. We learn to play a music instrument. We learn to see the world. We learn an addiction and it wires into the brain the pathways. We learn it all. We can unlearn our addiction too and many people over time do. We learn to live without the drugs. It indeed is learning invoulved.