Learned impotence, locus of control, cognitive bias & ego-sustainability
In the panorama of pathological addictions, gambling has overwhelmingly taken place in the last decade and today in Italy we are experiencing a real emergency in terms of the number of cases and the variety of forms of manifestation of the phenomenon. From 2007 to today the Orthos project, directed by Riccardo Zebetto, welcomed about 400 players from all over Italy, Switzerland, Croatia, France and England to short residential intensive psychotherapy treatment. The majority of them come from the Tuscany region, which with its foresight has financed the intervention for its citizens, thus limiting the damage that is produced in the social fabric to which they belong.