„… , and the accusations of “sex addict” and “porn addict” started whenever she wanted to hurt my …” „… Area sex therapist and author Dr. Marty Klein. If, however, a wife or girlfriend is uncomfortable with …” „… relationship with little sex. This weekend I said that this is not a secret; it’s just private. I’ve …”

„… addicts are actually consistent with the number of sexual partners and sexual experiences that non–sex …” „… addicts wish they could have. Thus, male sex addicts may differ only in their level of sexual success, not …” „… lost his job for sex-related behaviors and wonders if he might have been a sex addict. Juan had always …”

„… . 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 …”

„… , gambling or sex.”5 The intent of the ASAM’s new definition was to increase the under-standing of addicts …” „… certification chair for AASECT, Stephen Braveman.22Patrick Carnes initially defined sex addicts in Out of the …” „… got a sex addiction or not. My therapist said it wouldn’t hurt if I went to a sex addicts group …”

„… sensuality.Modern research with sex addicts includes very little information about women. Self-labeled sex addicts …” „… are predominantly males. In research with sex addicts and identified hypersexuals, women consistently …” „… of freedom.”16It would be easy to diagnose Catherine Millet as a sex addict. Anonymous sex, chronic …”

„… the crime, Moffat told police that he had been a sex addict who turned his addictive behaviors toward …” „… claimed that he had once had sex thirty times in a single day, until he found out his girlfriend was …” „… addict.14Patrick Carnes, Robert Weiss, Douglass Weiss, and most of those treating sex addiction are doing …”

„… girlfriends to be willing to explore having sex in public.6In England, the problem of public sex, called …” „… 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 …”

„… 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 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 …”

„… 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 …”

„… ), co-addict partners were once characterized as colluding with a sex addict’s acting out behavior, rather like …” „… addict’s demands for increased fre-quency of sex or participating in unusual sexual activity that the …” „… responsibility for his mood 140 Chapter 4swings. Having worked with numerous spouses of sex addicts over the …”

„… the identified sex addict and his family. Here are some examples of what that “village” might look …” „… like:• The sex addict may need individual therapy to explore the inti-mate complexities surrounding his …” „… Chapter 6• He may benefit from group therapy to hear information from other identified sex addicts that he …”

„… stronger inthe first place.But many exercise addicts cannot conceive of taking time off fromthe gym—even if …” „… . For exercise ad-dicts, getting to the gym, hitting the pavement, or cycling through alengthy cardio or …” „… addict’s avoidance of off days comes from a varietyof fears, including the avoidance of withdrawal symptoms …”

„… 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 …”

„… 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 …” „… publicbathrooms was deemed outstanding or inspiring to nearly everyoneWHAT IT FEELS LIKE: EXERCISE ADDICTS’ TRUE …”

„… addicts and drug pushers, while also revealing thenegligent power structures that perpetuate …” „… him.Jennifer, the former girlfriend of the protagonist Monty and mother ofMonty’s three children, now dates Joe …” „… only seven hundred dollars for afull month’s expenses. His selfish girlfriend, Renee, constantly …”

„… showed up on our assigned day in Branch 66, where all of the preliminary hearings on homicides and sex …” „… directly affect. For ex-ample, the general public now has much sympathy for addicts because of the opioid …” „… addicts are white. During the 1980s, however, during the crack crisis, where the addicts were mostly Black …”