Your sexually addicted spouse
Subtitle: how partners can cope and heal
By: by Barbara Steffens and Marsha Means
Contributors: Means, Marsha, 1948-
Publisher: New Horizon Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Far Hills, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780882823096
Subjects: Post-traumatic stress disorder; Marriage; Treatment; Family relationships; Sex addiction; Popular works; Sex addicts
Description: Sexual addictions and compulsive sexual behavior are growing societal problems, with as many as three to six percent of the world population affected. Your Sexually Addicted Partner shatters the stigma and shame that millions of men and women carry when their partners are sexually addicted.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-257).
Table of contents: title: When your partner's sexual addiction shatters your world. What is trauma and post-traumatic stress ; A study in contracts : is it co-addiction or is it trauma? ; Why your partner's sex addition hurts so much : attachment bonds betrayed ; How the addiction and trauma models differ in helping you heal ; Trauma impacts on every level : potential physical and mental health side effects of trauma; title: Your journey toward wholeness. Healing from trauma and post-traumatic stress ; From crisis to stability ; From integration to triumph; title: Stories from the other side. From the hearts of sex addicts who "get it" and care ; From the lives of partners and former partners of sex addicts; title: The rest of the journey.