A Three-Day Clinical Training with Andrew Tatarsky, PhD & Casey Paleos, MD

We are in the midst of a profound paradigm shift in how we understand addiction. Increasingly, clinicians are moving beyond seeing addiction solely as a disease and toward understanding it as a deeply meaningful human response to suffering—an adaptive attempt to regulate overwhelming emotions, cope with trauma, or survive difficult life circumstances. This shift transforms the therapeutic task: rather than focusing primarily on stopping a behavior, it invites us to focus first on the person, wit