Who is Ivan Goldberg?
He is a psychiatrist and clinical psychopharmacologist working in New York.
How does he build up the website PsyCom.net?
He poke fun at the AmericanPsychiatric Association.
What is IAD and its symptoms?
IAD is Internet addiction disorder.
Symptoms: important social and occupational activities are given up or reduced
because of Internet use.
dreaming about the Internet.
having uncontrolled movements of the fingers as if typing.
What is the new name which Goldberg to IAD?Why?
The new name is pathological Internet-use disorder.
The term IAD makes it sound as if one were dealing with heroin, a truly addicting substance.
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