The Routledge International Handbook of Sexual Addiction
The concept of sexual addiction has gained increasing recognition in the academic and healthcare communities since the 1990s. It has also captured the attention of the media, where there has been much debate over whether it can truly be described as an addiction. What is certain is that many people struggle with out of control sexual behaviour, which takes over their lives and has harmful consequences for their relationships, careers and finances.
The Routledge International Handbook of Sexual Addiction brings together a comprehensive range of perspectives on sexual addiction from a worldwide selection of scholars and therapists. It sets out to define sexual addiction and to study its causes from a range of different psychological perspectives. A series of presentations of sexual addiction are outlined, including internet sexual addiction and the relationship between paraphilias and sex addiction. The handbook considers both individual and group treatment strategies, drawing on a wide range of approaches, including cognitive behavioural therapy, mindfulness and 12-step programmes. The book studies sex addiction in specific populations including women, adolescents and men who have sex with men. Finally, it considers some of the alternative discourses surrounding the concept of sexual addiction.
This is the first comprehensive reference book to bring together global viewpoints on advances in research, theory and practice in one volume. This handbook provides an essential guide for academics and students of psychotherapy, counselling, nursing, addiction, sexualities, social work and health and social care, as well as professionals in practice and in training working with sexual addiction and related issues.
Thaddeus Birchard is the founder of the Marylebone Centre. He has an MSc in psychosexual therapy and a doctorate in the treatment of hypersexual disorders. He is accredited by the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies and is the founder of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity. He is the author of CBT for Compulsive Sexual Behaviour: A Guide for Professionals and Overcoming Sexual Addiction: A Self-Help Guide (both Routledge).
Joanna Benfield (MPhil) is a psychosexual therapist in private practice in London and France. She has a Diploma in Psychosexual and Relationship Therapy, and is a member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP) and the College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists (COSRT).
The Routledge International Handbook of Sexual Addiction
Edited by Thaddeus Birchard
and
Joanna Benfield
First published 2018
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Contents
SECTION 1
An introduction to sex addiction
Joanna Benfield
Stephen Southern
Gerard A. Schaefer and Christoph J. Ahlers
Paula Hall
SECTION 2
Presentations of sex addiction
Ralph Earle and Rick Isenberg
David L. Delmonico, Heather Putney and Elizabeth J. Griffin
Philippe Bensimon
Gerard A. Schaefer and Christoph J. Ahlers
Richard Newbury
SECTION 3
The aetiology of sex addiction
Kenneth M. Adams and Todd Love
Frederick Toates
John Beveridge
Manpreet K. Dhuffar and Mark D. Griffiths
Alex Smith
SECTION 4
The treatment of sex addiction
Joshua B. Grubbs, Joshua N. Hook, Brandon J. Griffin, J. Kim Penberthy and Shane W. Kraus
Eric Griffin-Shelley
Thaddeus Birchard
Timothy D. Stein and Patrick Carnes
George Collins
Michael Berry and Austin Lam
Jolanta Burke and Eoin Stephens
Matthew Hedelius
Kishore Chandiramani
Marie Wilson
Florence Thibaut
Robert Weiss
SECTION 5
Sex addiction in specific populations
Michael P. Chaney and Carol M. Burns-Wortham
Maria Watters and Todd Spaulding
Alexandra Katehakis
Joy Rosendale
Stefanie Carnes
Andrew Smith
Charles Samenow and Jennifer P. Schneider
Thaddeus Birchard
John Thoburn, Jyssica Seebeck and Sadie Teal
SECTION 6
Alternative discourses on sex addiction
Michael A. Vigorito and Douglas Braun-Harvey
Helen Keane
David J. Ley
SECTION 7
Conclusion
Thaddeus Birchard
Thaddeus Birchard , DPsych, is the Founder of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Addiction (UK) and the Marylebone Centre for Psychological Therapies in central London. He is an Accredited Member of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) and an Accredited Member of the College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists (COSRT). He is also registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy. Dr Birchard has a Postgraduate Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, a Postgraduate Diploma in Theology, an MSc in Psychosexual Therapy and a Doctorate in Psychotherapy. He has written numerous articles on sex addiction and his book CBT for Compulsive Sexual Behaviours: A Guide for Professionals was published by Routledge in May 2015 and Overcoming Sexual Addiction: A Self Help Guide in April 2017.
Joanna Benfield , MPhil, is a psychosexual therapist and couples counsellor with private practices serving London and France. She is a Registered Member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP) and an Accredited Member of the College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists (COSRT). Joanna has a Postgraduate Diploma in Psychosexual and Relationship Therapy and is completing an MA in Counselling and Psychotherapy. She works with sex addicts and their partners in her private practices in the UK and France. Joannas book
