Letter to the editor: problem gambling in phenomenological psychopathology

I intend to present phenomenological psychopathology to study the problem gambling. This approach, which aims to deepen the links between mental disorders and subjective experiences, helps to make sense of psychic suffering and the relationship that the individual has with the world. Until now, natural science and psychology have studied substance-related disorders and behavioral addiction as gambling starting from the impulsive stresses that connote the psychophysiological state of addiction. Behavioral addiction has been defined as a behavioral disorder and it was not included among the substance-related disorders, even though it shares some characteristics as the direct activation of the brain reward system. This classification emphasized the study of the body as an organism and, thus, the above phenomena were classified under the term addiction.