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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Sex addiction"”.
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Maladaptive Personality Traits and Sex Addiction Profiles
… relate to specific expressions of compulsive sexual behaviors? Previous studies have concluded that there are only small relationships between these two constructs, but such studies have usually conceptualized sexual compulsion as a unidimensional construct. The current study used a …
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AN EXPLORATION OF SYMPTOM SEVERITY AND SUICIDAL IDEATION WITHIN A SEX ADDICTION SAMPLE
<p>Currently sex addiction is not recognized as a mental disorder in the DSM-5-TR, yet it continues to negatively affect a significant number of people annually. The following study aimed to explore the relationships between sex addiction, attachment styles, and suicide-related behavior, and other …
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Developing contemporary models for understanding and treating sex addiction in the digital age
Sex addiction has been a highly contentious and controversial label since its conception in the early 80’s and debates continue between academics, therapists and sexologists. This context statement is a reflexive audit of the conception and evolution of public works that have been influenced by, …
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An exploratory study of clinicians' perceptions and experiences of the phenomenon of 'sex addiction' in South Africa
The naming of compulsive sexuality as sex addiction is recent and is a relatively new and emerging field abroad. While research in this field has proliferated in the United States since the 1980s, South African studies are limited. This study explores how mental health practitioners perceive and …
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An exploratory study of clinicianis perceptions and experiences of the phenomenon of 'sex addiction' in South Africa
Word processed copy. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 105-112).
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Men who identify as sex addicts – an IPA study
Sex addiction is the subject of much debate, as it was considered and then refused as an entry in the DSM5. Despite being referred to by different nomenclature, the most accepted definition is that it is characterized by a persistent pattern of failure to control intense, repetitive sexual impulses …
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Bound to Shame: Sexual Addiction and Christian Ethics
… add understanding and meaning to the concept of sexual addiction by correlating the clinical observation that sex addicts in particular, and shame-bound people in general, behave in cycles of control and release to the types of the two sons in the Lukan parable of the prodigal. This parable may …
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Brother Outsider: Queered Belonging and Kinships in African American Men’s Literature, 1953-1971
… and empathize, and the more mundane rituals of sex, addiction, and gossip, through which the displaced and dispossessed racialized subjects formulate alternate modes of belonging and kinships.</p> <p>In each of the chapters in this dissertation, I focus on the representations of in-migrations of …
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Sexual Addiction and MFT: Therapists' Perspectives on Facilitating Individual and Relationship Healing
… has been an increase in literature regarding sexual addiction as well as a growing number of clients presenting in therapy with problems related to their sexual behaviors (including internet sexual addiction). More recently, the impact of sexual addiction on couples has been noted, but little …
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Psychopathology and Sexual Addiction as Correlates of Disordered Attachment
… disordered personality, and problematic sexual behaviors in a clinical sample of 402 men in treatment for sexual addiction. Anxious and avoidant attachment were hypothesized to correlate with certain constructs of psychopathology, disordered personality, and dimensions of problematic …