Facing the Shadow: Starting Sexual and Relationship Recovery Author: Visit Amazon's Patrick Carnes Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0982650523 | Format: PDF
Facing the Shadow: Starting Sexual and Relationship Recovery Description
Review
This book should be primary reading for anyone seeking to understand addiction in the 21st Century. --Robert Weiss, MSW, author of Cruise Control
Facing the Shadow is an exciting "hands-on" process in which to experience healing. It will challenge the reader and offer the opportunity to embrace recovery." --Claudia Black, PhD, author of Deceived
With innovative new research and experiential, reflective materials, this practical workbook will serve as an excellent tool both for the general public and therapists. Pat Carnes remains the guru of the sex addiction field." --Ralph Earle, PhD, author of Lonely All the Time
About the Author
Patrick Carnes, PhD, is author of Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction (1992), Contrary to Love: Helping the Sexual Addict (1989), The Betrayal Bond (1997), Open Hearts (1999), and Facing the Shadow (2001). He is executive director of the Gentle Path program at Pine Grove Behavioral Center in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
- Paperback: 325 pages
- Publisher: Gentle Path Press; Second Edition edition (January 1, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0982650523
- ISBN-13: 978-0982650523
- Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 8 x 1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
It is becoming increasingly important for counsellors and psychotherapists to educate themselves about the issue of Sexual Addiction, which can be defined as out-of-control and damaging sexual behaviour in relation to Internet sex, prostitution, telephone sex, multiple affairs etc. Modern society provides a huge range of options for artificially enhanced, relatively impersonal sexual stimulation, and in our counselling practices we are more frequently meeting clients who may be addicted in some of these areas.
I recommend this new 2nd edition of Carnes' book as an introduction to the subject. Carnes has been the field leader in Sexual Addiction counselling since publishing "Out of the Shadows" in 1983, and the present book accessibly summarises his thinking about the problem, along with approaches for helping those who may be struggling with it. The main addition since the 1st edition is a more detailed exploration of the growing phenomenon of Cybersex (Internet sex) addiction.
Having been involved in the development of addiction treatment/recovery in the USA for many years, Carnes' thinking is a blend of influences taken from 12-Step programmes such as Alcoholics Anonymous and Sex & Love Addicts Anonymous, from Cognitive-Behavioural techniques such as written inventories and challenging core beliefs, and from relevant neurobiological findings. He has a deep understanding of the nature of Addictive Behaviours over and above the familiar example of Chemical Dependency, and his key contribution to the field may be his description of the Sexual Addiction Cycle, where Preoccupation leads to Ritualisation, which leads to addictive Acting Out behaviours; the Pain arising from this acting out can then be numbed by further Preoccupation, which closes the self-perpetuating cycle.
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