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- - The paper presents a case of a 36-year-old woman with a behavioral addiction to fortune-telling services, highlighting it as a non-substance addiction.
- - This type of addiction involves seeking out manipulative "occult services" and nontraditional practices for personal fortune.
- - The authors emphasize that this case exhibits all six key components typical of addictions and urge psychiatrists to recognize the rising prevalence of such behavioral addictions.
Article Abstract
The paper describes a case report of a 36-years old female patient suffering from an addiction to seeking fortune-telling services, which is a type of behavioral addiction, or non-substance addiction. This condition is characterized by the addiction to various "occult services", fortune tellers and other representatives of nontraditional practices who are usually manipulative and self-serving. The authors reveal that this case report of fortune telling addiction possesses all of six components universal for addictions.In light of the increasing prevalence of various behavioral addictions, clinical psychiatrists should be aware of this phenomenon.
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| http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10550887.2020.1740637 | DOI Listing |
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