Sexual addiction: Difference between revisions

Sexual addiction is hypothesized to be (but is not always) associated with [[obsessive-compulsive disorder]] (OCD), [[narcissistic personality disorder]],<ref name="the-self-psychology">{{cite book|last=Ulman|first=Richard B. |coauthors=Harry Paul|title=The Self Psychology of Addiction and Its Treatment|publisher=Psychology Press|year=2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=Ralph Earle|coauthors=Gregory M. Crow, Kevin Osborn|title=Lonely All the Time: Recognizing, Understanding, and Overcoming Sex Addiction, for Addicts and Co-dependents|year=1989|page=57}}</ref>, [[Bipolar disorder|manic-depression]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Terrie M. |title=Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We're Not Hurting|publisher=Simon & Schuster|year=2008 | quote=[..]diagnosed as bipolar or manic-depressive, but his depression

first started manifesting itself as sexual addiction,|page=114}}</ref> and a significant amount of disposable income. There are those who suffer from more than one condition simultaneously (co-occurring disorder), but traits of addiction are often confused with those of these disorders, often due to most clinicians not being adequately trained in diagnosis and characteristics of addictions, and many clinicians tending to avoid use of the diagnosis at all.<ref name=Francoeur1994/><ref name="OCD-SA">{{cite book|last=Hollander|first=Eric |coauthors= Dan J. Stein|title=Obsessive-compulsive Disorders|publisher=Informa Health Care|year=1997|page=212}}</ref><ref name="couples-theory">{{cite book|first=Linda Berg-Cross|coauthors=Marcia Hill|title=Couples Therapy|publisher=Haworth Clinical Practice Press|year=2001 | quote= They found that sexual narcissism is more common among men ... These characteristics are also central to the person with a sexual addiction|page=375}}</ref>