The Boston Globe has an intriguing question and answer session up with Dr. Jerald Block, who specialises in online video game addiction.
Block, a psychiatrist in Portland, Ore., recently wrote an editorial in the American Journal of Psychiatry arguing that Internet Addiction should become a new diagnostic term.
It’s interesting to read his thoughts and them to compare it to the things being said by the psychiatrists I interviewed back in 1999 when I wrote a story about how researchers think that Internet and Sex addiction are very similar. Back then a David Greenfield, director for the Centre of Internet Studies, told me that the Internet was addictive and that that particular form of addiction was nearing a national epidemic… yet somehow we survived.
