The Inventor of Internet Addiction

※Who is Dr. Ivan Goldberg?

◎A psychiatrist and clinical psycho pharmacologist working in New York,
came up with the term Internet addiction in 1995.

※How does he build up the website PsyCom.net?

◎Make fun of the complexity of the language used in the manual, so he made up
a distance called ”Internet addiction disorder” (IAD).

※What’s the purpose of PsyCom.net?

◎Posted messages and exchanged ideas.

※What are IAD and its symptoms?

◎ Important social and occupational activities are given up or reduced because of Internet use.

◎Dreaming about the Internet and having uncontrolled movements of the fingers as if typing.

※What is the new name which Goldberg gave to IAD? Why?

◎Pathological Internet-use disorder.

◎The term IAD makes it sound as if one were dealing with heroin, a truly addicting substance.