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Experts Closer to Naming More Specific Criteria for Sexual Addiction, Hypersexuality

Posted on November 9th, 2012

It can be difficult for experts to know who is living with sexual addiction and who may be displaying excessive sexual activity that hasn’t yet become an addiction. Recently psychologists and experts have begun sharing what could become the criteria for helping diagnose and treat hypersexuality, sexual compulsivity or sexual addiction.

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Posted on September 7th, 2010

By: Robert Weiss, LCSW, CSAT-S

Once considered fodder for daytime talk shows and grocery store literature, today Sexual Addiction is increasingly acknowledged by the psychotherapeutic mainstream and the general public as a legitimate disorder with specific assessment criteria and a defined method of treatment.