TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - The dissociative nature of sexual addiction the role of traumatic emotions
JO  - Procedia - social and behavioral sciences
A1  - Giuseppe, Craparo
SP  - 45
EP  - 51
VL  - 114
IS  - 
N2  - 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 />
LA  - en
SN  - 1877-0428
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.12.654
ID  - ref1
ER  -