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#187 A Treatment of Sexual Addiction

By Ellen Toronto, Ph.D.

simon via Compfight Remember Charlie, a man in his early fifties who entered treatment after breaking up with a woman for whom he cared deeply. He had been married twice…

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#186: Charlie’s Sexual Addiction

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Prairie Kittin via Compfight Charlie was a man in his early fifties who entered treatment after breaking up with a woman for whom he cared deeply.

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#185: Addiction: Feeding the Starving Infant Inside

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Paul Bence via Compfight It is downright embarrassing to think that we might carry within us a terrified child.

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#184: Addictions: When Real Relationships Don’t Work

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bass_nroll via Compfight Last week we talked about how failures of trust and reliability in the earliest relationships predisposes a person to addictive behavior.

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