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Stop Sex Addiction

Real Hope, True Freedom for Sex Addicts and Partners

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Chances are someone you know is a sex addict (or is living with one).

Sex addiction is a growing menace that threatens all strata of our society, destroying millions of marriages, damaging reputations, contributing to suicides and in some cases prison sentences, and wasting mind-boggling amounts of money. But there is hope.

Sex addiction is treatable. Through the rigorous recovery program detailed in these pages, it is possible for sex addicts to stop all of their destructive behaviors—forever. The recovery road is long and difficult, but also very rewarding. Marriages have not only been restored, but enriched. By following the steps described in Stop Sex Addiction, addicts and their partners have found the path to freedom from sex addiction. You have taken the first steps along that path by picking up this book. The wisdom it contains will lead to real hope and true freedom.

Milton Magness, D. Min., MA, LPC, CSAT, is the founder and director of Hope & Freedom Counseling Services in Houston, Texas. He is a licensed professional counselor and a certified sex addiction therapist.

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    • Library Journal

      June 15, 2013

      Drawing from his professional experience working with sex addicts and their partners, Magness (founder, Hope & Freedom Counseling Svcs.) defines what sex addiction is and describes what is needed for successful recovery. This sometimes involves significant life changes, including actively working with an experienced sex addiction-experienced therapist, becoming involved with a 12-step sex addiction program, establishing lifetime accountability, and more. Magness also describes the challenges partners of sex addicts face; he includes a collection of survey responses from partners. VERDICT Sex addiction is a complicated subject in psychotherapy and has not yet been officially recognized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). Clearly, many aspects of Magness's approach to sex addiction and recovery are informed by contemporary American Christian beliefs about family, gender, and sexuality, but that's true of our culture at large, too. It is this subtlety, turning the description of compulsive-impulsive-destructive behavior into the moralization of sexual behaviors and the limiting of sexual expression to a traditional, conservative Judeo-Christian framework, that is a problem for this book. Despite the author's intention to help individuals and relationships, he cannot avoid these pitfalls, and therefore this book is not recommended.--Scott Vieira, Sam Houston State Univ. Lib., Huntsville, TX

      Copyright 2013 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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