Internet: Un amplificateur pour les addictions comportementales

Abstract

Since 2000, the Marmottan Medical Centre received more and more videogames players, gamblers, and users of pornographic websites. It appears that, for those people, the use of Internet is more and more frequent. The web is a catalyst of some addictions. However these groups of patients show particular social and clinical characteristics. Thus, they or their entourage need specific counselling and a different institutional partnership. Just as the use of psy-chotropic drugs, since the seventies, could be regarded as an indicator of societal change, it is the same for Internet and the technological new prospects it generates. © De Boeck Universite.