Couples group psychotherapy: Rebuilding the marital relationship following disclosure of sexual deviance.

Targeting the Psychosexual Challenges Faced by Couples with Breast Cancer: Can Couples Group Psychotherapy Help?

“…A couple’s group approach has been found to be a cost-effective way to increase couples’ intimacy and address issues of couple sexuality [ 58 ]. It has been successfully applied to treat complex psychosexual challenges such as compulsive sexual behaviors [ 59 , 60 ]. Relative to the treatment of hypoactive sexual desire, couple sex therapy in a group format can ameliorate women’s symptomatology [ 61 ].…”

A pilot study of the relationship between childhood sexual abuse and compulsive sexual behaviors in adults

“…According to SLAA (1986), a sex and love addict is someone who acknowledges that he or she is unable to control a pattern of sexually destructive behavior. Although sexual behavior as an addiction is not included within the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric Association, 1994), some forms of sexual behavior appear to exhibit the classic characteristics of addiction: tolerance, existence of withdrawal symptoms, decreased control, compulsivity, obsession, and continued use despite negative consequences (Carnes, 1983(Carnes, , 1991Earle & Crow, 1989;Irons & Schneider, 1994;Reisen & Althof, 1990;Schneider, 1989;Sprenkle, 1987;Wolf, 1988).…”