Main description:

Compulsive Sexual Behaviours offers a unique approach to the struggles people face with their out-of-control sexual behaviours.

This comprehensive guide is deeply rooted in the science of sexology and psychotherapy, demonstrating why it is time to re-think the reductive concept of 'sex addiction' and move towards a more modern age of evidence-based, pluralistic and sex-positive psychotherapy. It is an important manual for ethical, safe and efficient treatment within a humanistic and relational philosophy.

This book will be an important guide in helping clients stop their compulsive sexual behaviours as well as for therapists to self-reflect on their own morals and ethics so that they can be prepared to explore their clients' erotic mind.

Contents:

Introduction; Part 1: Understanding compulsive sexual behaviours; 1: A pluralistic perspective beyond the addiction thinking; 2: The diagnosis of compulsive sexual behaviour disorder; 3: The Science of Sexology; 4: Compulsive watching of pornography and masturbating; 5: Being ethical. First Do No Harm; Part 2: The pluralistic and sex-positive approach: Assessment of the diverse population; 6: Assessments; 7: The RAW Assessment; 8: Client stories: Assessment and formulation; Part 3: Pluralistic Treatment for Compulsive Sexual Behaviours; 9: The Three Phase Treatment Approach; 10: Phase 1: Emotional Regulation. Impulse control; 11: Phase 2: Reprocessing. Treating compulsivity; 12: Phase 3: Reconstruction. Meaning Making; 13: Clients stories. Treatment; 14: Working online; Part 4: Working with partners of people with CSB; 15: Assessment and Formulation; 16: Grief; 17: Trauma; 18: Clinical interventions: Phase 1; 19: Clinical interventions: Phase 2; 20: Clinical interventions: Phase 3