@article{ref1,
title="The dissociative nature of sexual addiction the role of traumatic emotions",
journal="Procedia - social and behavioral sciences",
year="2014",
author="Giuseppe, Craparo",
volume="114",
number="",
pages="45-51",
abstract="The term addiction applies to a morbid form characterized by substance abuse, an object or a behaviour; it defines a dysfunctional mental state characterized by a feeling of irrepressible desire and uncontrollable need to be repeated in a compulsive manner; it is an invasive condition marked by the phenomena of craving in a frame of uncontrollable habit that causes clinically significant distress. The authors propose a new interpretation of sexual addiction as a dissociative mechanism to regulate not-modulated emotions that were not mentalized (traumatic emotions) in early relationships with primary caregivers. To start from this theoretical model, this article suggests a treatment of sex addiction focused on the identifying and regulation of traumatic emotions implicated in sexual compulsion.<p />",
language="en",
issn="1877-0428",
doi="10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.12.654",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.12.654"
}