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What is a sex addict? One man's journey towards self-definition through twelve-step and psychodynamic treatment

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What is a sex addict? One man's journey towards self-definition through twelve-step and psychodynamic treatment
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Oxman
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Alan
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Alan Oxman
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Rutgers University
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School of Social Work
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This case study describes a psychoanalytically oriented therapy with Drew, a patient who entered the therapy self-identifying as a "sex-addict" and struggling with aspects of the twelve-step paradigm espoused in the Sex Addicts Anonymous group he attended for the previous five years. I explore what effects and meanings the sex addict label had for Drew. Using our relationship as a gauge, I attend to the fluctuating emotions and meanings Drew attached to his intrusive thoughts and compulsive behaviors. Throughout, I explore the challenges and frustrations posed by a relational therapeutic stance, whereby I empathized with Drew in a "no-blame paradigm" (Cohn, 2014, p. 79), which, at times, became destabilized by Drew's inclination to self-pathologize his sexual activities and swallow whole the twelve-step "incurable disease" model of sexual addiction.
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Addiction treatment
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Compulsive sexual behavior
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Hypersexual behavior
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Sex addiction
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Sexual compulsivity
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Sexual preoccupation
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Twelve-step programs
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ETD doctoral
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