Breaking the cycle free yourself from sex addiction, porn obsession, and shame
"In Breaking the Cycle, sex addiction specialist George Collins offers a powerful, no-nonsense program for helping readers identify their unhealthy sexual patterns, overcome sex addiction, and start living more productive lives. Sex addicts live with a compulsion they just can't shake - an...
| Main Author: | Collins, George N. |
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| Other Authors: | Adleman, Andrew. |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Oakland, CA :
New Harbinger Publications,
Ã2010.
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| Summary: |
"In Breaking the Cycle, sex addiction specialist George Collins offers a powerful, no-nonsense program for helping readers identify their unhealthy sexual patterns, overcome sex addiction, and start living more productive lives. Sex addicts live with a compulsion they just can't shake - an inner voice that compels them to seek pornography, pursue sexual encounters with strangers, and do everything they can to gratify the sexual urges that won't go away. But people with sex addictions can learn to enjoy lives of productivity and purpose and develop true intimate connections with others. Breaking the Cycle helps readers learn to identify the triggers and compulsive thoughts that keep them trapped in the cycle of addiction and offers skills for countering those thoughts instead of simply caving to them. By drawing on their deepest values and ideals, readers find the strength to separate their true selves from their obsessive thoughts. Gradually, using exposure techniques, readers develop resistance to their former triggers and make sex addict behavior, and then the addictive thoughts themselves, a thing of the past."--Publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: |
vi, 212 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-212). |
| ISBN: |
9781608820832 1608820831 |
| Author Notes: |
George N. Collins, MA, is founder and director of Compulsion Solutions, an outpatient counseling service in the San Francisco Bay Area specializing in the treatment of sexually compulsive behavior. www.compulsionsolutions.com Andrew Adleman, MA, is a writer and book editor in the greater Los Angeles area. |