Category: Pornography Addiction
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Treatment for Pornography: From Disease Model to a Response by Men
Treatment for Pornography Addiction often focusses on the act of watching pornography and assistance to try to reduce the ‘behaviour’. But if such an approach doesn’t work, what are the alternative models of addiction? And why don’t we hear more about them? I’ve been working with concerns about addiction to pornography for a number of…
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Inspiration in Treatment: The Rewards of Working as a Therapist in 2013
How was 2013 for you? What does 2014 have in store? Do you have any New Years Resolutions? When out socially, I’m regularly told that my work must be demanding, difficult and depressing. It must take its toll on you, people say. I don’t want to pretend that being a therapist isn’t challenging and personally…
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Can I see a Medicare Provider for Porn Addiction? Do You Accept Health Insurance?
Meeting with a Medicare provider for porn addiction can be a source of support and treatment. Both men and women contact me seeking help, either for themselves or their partners. Sometimes it is around use of pornography and sometimes for dating websites. Sometimes they seeking mental health treatment for pornography addiction . They are looking…
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Is this Sex Addiction? Questioning ‘Sex Addiction’ in Therapy and Counselling Conversations
This paper examines the concept of ‘sex addiction’, and its increasing popularity since the emergence of AIDS in gay communities in the 1980s. Adopting narrative therapy’s ethical orientations of decentred yet influential positioning, and being in a ‘lifelong apprenticeship’, the author worked with a number of men to renegotiate their relationship with ‘sex addiction’ in…
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Psychoanalysis or Quick Fix: What is the Most Effective Approach to Sex Therapy?
What is the best approach to sex therapy? Psychoanalysis or brief, solution focussed counselling? Or is there an alternative? What should I look for in a sex therapist? Sex Therapists Online: It’s the Relationship That Counts Before people start trying to find a sex therapist online, it’s common for them to reading comparisons between short-term,…
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Help Me, I’m Wasting Time Looking at Pornography!
Help to stop wasting time looking at pornography is one reason people contact me as a therapist. There are other reasons too. And there are reasons people start to use pornography in the first place. Opening up about your relationship with pornography is a first step you can take to recovering a sense of control.…