Don't Call It Love: Recovery From Sexual Addiction Patrick Carnes
Publisher: Bantam

SUSAN PEABODY: I call it love addiction because I believe in monogamy. €Love Addiction” has nothing to do with love but it can be managed if you utilize a variety of resources. They seem to prefer sexual behavior involving relatively Sharon has appeared on a number of television and radio programs discussing couple recovery from sex addiction, as well as individual recovery from sexual trauma of all kinds. 2 The National Council on Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity – http://www.ncsac.org and http://www.sash.net 3 Defense Security Services – http://www.dss.mil 4 Patrick Carnes (1991). So sexual recovery is about getting back what you've lost to the addiction. Using some of his early research discussed in his book Don't Call It Love, Dr. In 1992, he released Don't Call It Love: Recovery From Sexual Addiction, a book that features results from a study he conducted of 1,000 addicts and their families. A sex addict will get addicted to pornography, or prostitutes, or having an affair with someone they don't know very well, and the love addict is interested in a relationship, they're interested in bonding. Sex addicts with fetishes are usually able to slowly reintegrate fetish behaviors into an active, healthy sex life. She shares her own experience as a love addict and her journey through recovery explaining what makes a relationship unhealthy and the steps to take to break the cycle. Of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction in 1985. Patrick Carnes discovered that, in general, male sex addicts tend to objectify their partners. This radio show teaches you the recovery tasks needed to work through the shame that accompanies this compulsion.