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At the core of addiction is something all of us struggle with. Compulsion, escapism, and negative patterns we can’t seem to break. Why does this happen? And more importantly, what can we do about it?

To answer that question, I studied the psychology of addiction, searched through the latest neuroscience… but the answer I found was much older than you might think. Hidden in plain sight for hundreds of years, in the words of Carl Jung.

00:00 The Psychology of Addiction
01:42 What is addiction?
13:35 Archetypes
17:56 Rewiring the Brain
25:18 Individuation
29:29 Synchronicity
34:45 Jung or Brain Science?

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