Your Sexually Addicted Spouse: How Partners Can Cope and Heal - Softcover

Steffens, Barbara; Means, Marsha

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0882823094 ISBN 13: 9780882823096

Publisher: New Horizon Press, 2009

Synopsis

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. They receive little empathy for their pain, which means they suffer alone, often shocked and isolated by the trauma. Barbara Steffens' groundbreaking new research shows that partners are not codependents but post-traumatic stress victims, while Marsha Means' personal experience provides insights, strategies, and critical steps to recognize, deal with, and heal partners of sexually addicted relationships. Firsthand accounts and stories reveal the impact of this addiction on survivors' lives. Chapters end with On a Personal Note” questions and propose new paths that lead from trauma to empowerment, health, and hope. Useful appendices list health and mental health care providers and clergy.

About this title

About the Author:

Barbara Steffens, PhD, LPCC, has specialized in the area of sexual addiction and providing help for the partners of sexual addicts since 1999. At her practice in Cincinnati, Ohio, Safe Passages Counseling, she provides individual and group counseling, as well as coaching for partners of sexual addicts.

Review:

"This sensible and authoritative guide will serve as a comforting source for those with a sexually addicted partner and as a resourceful approach for counselors." ---Library Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: New Horizon Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0882823094
• ISBN 13: 9780882823096
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224