„… 99c h A P t e r 3individual therapy with the sex AddictIn Rumi’s poem, “On Resurrection Day,” he …” „… psychodynamic approach to the treatment of the sex addict and his family. Just like any other approach, it takes …” „… favorite memories involve him. Individual Therapy with the Sex Addict 101In an important paper, Shedler …”

„… problem that is him. We have treated numerous women who either identify as sex addicts or seem like they …” „… might be sex (or love) addicts, but our reflections on their treatment are based less on early, direct …” „… easier for gay sex addicts to remain in denial” (Weiss, 2013, p. 90). Due to their traditional ostracism …”

„… Problem of Thinking: Internal Process and Defenses in Group TherapyShame-faced sex addicts don’t share as …” „… needs. Recalling Carnes’s (1991) derivative assertion that a sex addict transfers his emotional needs …” „… towards sexual act-ing out, we regularly observe that sex addicts struggle with the 190 Chapter 5 …”

„… treatment center in Colorado, which offers a wide range of treatment options to sex addicts, their spouses …” „… parents who were sex addicts, in the model of Al-Anon, and under the premise that the unique patterns of …” „… parenting in sex addicts can lead to unique and treatable problems in their children. Though Weiss’s website …”

„… athletes.RThe Appeal of Calling It an AddictionAs the ex-spouse of a “sex addict,” I know when I found out I …” „… relationships are inherently unhealthy, and the treatment goal for a sex addict is to learn to incorporate the …” „… sex addict by a friend. In The Ethical Slut, the authors write, “Sex-addict’ seems to be the latest …”

„… , and the accusations of “sex addict” and “porn addict” started whenever she wanted to hurt my …” „… always with a husband or boyfriend as a part of mutual sex—78 percent of men would like to share porn …” „… relationship with little sex. This weekend I said that this is not a secret; it’s just private. I’ve …”

„… differentiate 5Sexual Healing60 Chapter 5a high libido from an alleged sex addict, and to acknowledge that …” „… caused them to turn into a sexual addict and made them unable to stop thinking about sex, unable to work …” „… couples and that of supposed sex addicts.Sometimes, refusing to tolerate an uncomfortable situation any …”

„… . Others assert that sex addicts attempt to “to control pleasure and pain by inducing experiences that (1 …” „… be the addicts who use sex in unhealthy ways to manage anxiety.In the previous chapter discussing …” „… as “self-will run riot” and suggests that it is actually impos-sible for a sex addict to control him …”

„… 155The greatest hurdle to sexual harmony is ignorance of the fact that members of the other sex …” „… symptoms of sex addiction. T suppresses the developing child’s immune system and thus serves as a later …” „… , they actually end up having fewer overall sexual encounters. The choice seems to be less sex with more …”

„… her in an asylum and then disappeared; later, her foster mother, Teresa, a sex worker with whom she …” „… school truancy and also peddles drugs for a boyfriend who only uses her for his own profit and even sells …” „… , who owns an iguana named Chief. The scene is entirely weird as she puts on a bikini to have sex with …”

„… exercise addicts find it difficult to take seriously their lovedone’s internal struggles. “Gee, I wish I …” „… could have some of that compul-sive exercise,” one recovering exercise addict’s father often tells her …” „… overkill.“It’s frustrating,” says an exercise addict interviewed by CBS News,1“because here I would get my …”

„… recent breakup with a long-distance boyfriend.I gripped these gym regimens like a security blanket to …” „… 7WHAT IT FEELS LIKEExercise Addicts’ True StoriesKATHERINE SCHREIBERThe moment I became cognizant …” „… the environment in whichit existed.WHAT IT FEELS LIKE: EXERCISE ADDICTS’ TRUE STORIES 79Rather than …”

„… (though she went through “fifty-six boyfriends” before Betty White as Rose Nylund, the perpetually …” „… ). Fifty-six boyfriends notwithstanding, they married, had five children, and remained loyal to one another …” „… : although Rose had a series of boyfriends throughout the series, she eventually committed herself to one …”

„… enjoys the act with a boyfriend (who eventu-ally becomes her husband). Considering the Girls started out …” „… wayward addicts with moral failings. Rather, they’re everyone from the elderly who ran out of money to the …” „… want her brother and his boyfriend out together in public, because she was concerned about the judgment …”