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Addictive Sexual Behavior

American Journal of Psychotherapy, 1994
Case material is presented from two patients suffering from addictive sexual behavior. The term addiction is used because of the intense, driven quality of the behavior and because of its mood-elevating effects. Psychodynamically, the patients’ sexual acts helped to undo feelings of rejection at the hands of their mothers and to ...
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What is Sexual Addiction?

Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 2010
Married men labeled as sexual addicts seek help after being discovered to have had broken monogamy rules for sexual behavior through their use of masturbation, pornography, cybersex, commercial sex involvement, paraphilic pursuits, or affairs. This study analyzed the sexual patterns and dynamics of 30 men who presented to 1 clinician between 2005 and ...
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Sexual Orientation and the Addictions

Journal of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy, 1995
Change and growth are essential parts of human development. Sometimes help is needed for change necessitating psychotherapeutic interventions. The desire for some specific changes, however, may be based on misunderstanding, fear, or prejudice. The therapist must take a clear and objective view, understand what motivates the change, and not promise the ...
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The Sexual Addiction

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1984
This self-help book gives a plausible description of the obsessive preoccupation experienced by those persons who are compulsively and uncontrollably driven to use repetitive, destructive sexual behaviors in the same way that addicts use moodaltering chemicals.
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Sexual Problems of Heroin Addicts

Archives of General Psychiatry, 1974
Despite evidence that sexual problems may play a role in the dissatisfaction of heroin addicts with methadone hydrochloride treatment, little is known about their drug-free sexual adjustments or the effects of opiates. We surveyed 136 heroin-addicted veterans for problems of impotence, premature ejaculation, and retarded ejaculation when the subjects ...
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The Sexual Addict

The Nurse Practitioner, 1990
Sexual compulsion is now recognized as a true addictive process that may manifest itself through a wide range of behaviors. Recognition of this disorder in primary care settings may be difficult because of the ego defenses of denial and rationalization that characterize this disorder.
S D, Schaffer, M L, Zimmerman
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A Study of the Sexuality of Opiate Addicts

Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 2002
The influence of heroin use on sexual behavior was studied in individuals attending a drug abuse program in Porto, Portugal. As we expected, drug abuse was found mainly to adversely affect sexual behavior. A minority of patients reported improvement in sexual behavior with heroin use.
A Pacheco, Palha, M, Esteves
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Addicted to Pain: A Preliminary Model of Sexual Masochism as Addiction

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 2016
An exploratory, qualitative, phenomenological study focused on the experience of pain while participating in sexual masochistic acts. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with nine individuals (four female, five male) who regularly participate in sexually masochistic acts and point to pain as central to their experience.
Holly, Kurt, Natti, Ronel
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Sexual Addiction in Incarcerated Sexual Offenders

Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity, 2006
The prevalence and features of sexual addiction in sexual offenders incarcerated in a Canadian Federal prison were examined. Eighty male respondents (40 sexual offenders, 40 community subjects) completed questionnaires on sexual addiction and drug and alcohol problems.
L. E. Marshall, W. L. Marshall
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Diagnosis and treatment of sexual addiction

Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 1993
Following a brief introduction to the concept of addiction, the definition of and diagnostic criteria for sexual addiction are presented. A theoretical framework for treatment of sexual addiction is then outlined, based on an understanding of the underlying addictive process: the compulsive dependence on external actions as a means of regulating one's ...
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