Full Description
The Routledge International Handbook of Sexual Compulsivity and Clinical Sexology is a cutting-edge and comprehensive guide to understanding compulsive sexual behaviours in-depth in the 21st century.
Drawing on classic conceptualisations as well as the most recent research, the handbook evaluates and critiques undue pathologisation of diverse sexual behaviours, as well as identifying areas of concern for thorough assessment and treatment. It centres on the knowledge of clinical sexology and includes discussions around the diagnostic criteria of compulsive sexual behaviour disorder by the ICD-11 (WHO), filling the gaps of previous sex addiction information with up-to-date scientific knowledge. It promotes multiple therapeutic modalities for treatment and considers perspectives from populations who have historically been harmed by pseudo-diagnosis, such as LGBTQ+ people and sex workers. All this takes place within a sex-positive lens, with robust ethical consideration, as well as curiosity and cultural humility. This handbook is a significant contribution to the literature on sexual compulsivity research and clinical practice, particularly in including diverse populations, erotic orientations, sexual minorities, and effective therapeutic methods. Topics include debating sex addiction vs compulsive sexual behaviours, pornography-related distress, compulsive sexual behaviours and trauma, kink-informed therapy, and more. The handbook includes crucial contributions in the field from an international team of specialist clinicians. It follows the great tradition of sexology in its sex-positive philosophy, innovative thinking, and the respect for social justice.
This handbook is essential to psychologists, psychotherapists, sexologists, sex therapists, and psychiatrists. It will be useful for individual practitioners, students and researchers in clinical sexology worldwide.
Contents
1. Introduction
Silva Neves
Section 1: Clinical formulations of compulsive sexual behaviours
2. The debate: "sex addiction" Vs compulsive sexual behaviours
Annika Tamme & Mary-Ann Kubre
3. Compulsive sexual behaviour disorder: where are we at? A literature review
Madga Piesiewicz
4. Lay epistemology of compulsive sexual behaviour
Lisa Etherson
5. Pornography-related distress: answers to common practice questions through a contextual lens
Brian A. Droubay
6. Compulsive sexual behaviour: an integrated and inclusive approach
Dr Roberta Babb
7. Exploring the function of the "dysfunction": re-thinking attachment, connection and intimacy for broader perspectives on sexual compulsivity
Silva Neves
Section 2: The causes of compulsive sexual behaviour
8. Attachment injuries, shame and the aetiology of compulsive sexual behaviour
Lisa Etherson
9. Trauma and compulsive sexual behaviour: unraveling the connection and exploring therapeutic approaches
Rita Torres
10. Compulsive sexual behaviour, impulse control and emotional dysregulation: a broader view
Rima Hawkins
11. Perceived compulsive sexual behavior: when sexual diversity is misunderstood
Stefano Eleuteri & Berfin Alyesil
12. The organic causes of hypersexuality
Dr Angela Wright
Section 3: Specific clinical presentations of compulsive sexual behaviour
13. Women and compulsive sexual behaviour
Jenna Mc Caffrey
14. How psychosexual issues could influence compulsive sexual behavior (CSB), and how CSB could maintain psychosexual issues
Catriona Boffard
15. Aberrance, identity, and serious leisure: understanding BDSM/Kink within the framework of compulsive sexual behavior
Stefani Goerlich
16. Compulsive sexual behaviour and neurodiversity
Julie Marshall
17. Addressing compulsive sexual behaviour disorder in clients from the Global Majority
Natasha Anderson-Foster
18. Chemsex
Dr Aoife Drury
19. Artificial Intelligence and sexual compulsivity
Neil McArthur
Section 4: Treatments of compulsive sexual behaviour
20. Compulsive sexual behaviour and the three-phase model
Hanna Möllås
21. Compulsive sexual behaviour and the person-centred approach
Lorraine Carpenter-Emery
22. Compulsive sexual behaviour and Gestalt Therapy
Juliette Clancy
23. Sexual Integration Therapy: A sex-positive, non-pathologizing approach shifting compulsive sexual behavior to authentic sexual expression
Galen Fous & Christina Bazzaroni
24. Compulsive sexual behaviour and the CBT approach
Simon Lyne
25. Working with compulsive sexual behaviour using Transactional Analysis
Alison Bryant
26. Treating problematic sexual behavior with Internal Family Systems viewed through a polyvagal lens
Dr Peg Hurley and Carl Mojta
27. Addressing compulsive sexual behaviour through a psychodynamic lens: insights from case study analysis
Dorota Mucha
28. Working through shame in psychodrama: A trauma-informed approach to compulsive sexual behaviours
Eva Koumpli
29. EMDR as a treatment for compulsive sexual behaviour
Nicola Pinder
30. Kink-affirming perspectives on clients presenting with sexual behavior concerns
Stephen E. Ratcliff and Stefani Goerlich
31. Compulsive sexual behaviour and an existential approach: avoiding existential truths
Niki D
32. Compulsive sexual behaviour and Compassion Focused Therapy
Alexis Caught
33. Group work in the context of compulsive sexual behaviours
Dr Christopher McCormack and Dr Michael Yates
34. Compulsive sexual behaviour and intimate partner therapy
Deborah Sless
35. Supporting partners of people with compulsive sexual behaviours
Ella Shannon Morter
36. The Clinical supervision of therapists working with compulsive sexual behaviours. Providing a sex-positive, sexologically-informed reflective space for therapists to examine their work, projection, countertransference and blind spots
Keith Marshall
Section 5: Further perspectives
37. Homosexuality as Addiction: The Rev. Jerry Falwell's Approach to Queerness and Its Legacy in the New Christian Right
Lucas F.W. Wilson & Christine M. Robinson
38. The impact of Purity Culture teachings on sexual behaviour and self esteem
Lucy Rowett
39. Beyond the "porn addiction" myth: Delivering Sexually Explicit Material (SEM) literacy in sexological practice Mahmoud Baydoun
40. Gay men and the benefits of visiting gay sex clubs
Silva Neves
41. Conclusion
Silva Neves
