A Treatment-Oriented Typology of Self-Identified Hypersexuality Referrals

Men and women have been seeking professional assistance to help control hypersexual urges and behaviors since the nineteenth century. Despite that the literature emphasizes that cases of hypersexuality are highly diverse with regard to clinical presentation and comorbid features, the major models fo...

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Published inArchives of sexual behavior Vol. 42; no. 5; pp. 883 - 893
Main Authors Cantor, James M., Klein, Carolin, Lykins, Amy, Rullo, Jordan E., Thaler, Lea, Walling, Bobbi R.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Boston Springer US 01.07.2013
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Addictive behaviors
Behavior Problems
Behavioral Science and Psychology
Clinical Case Report Series
Extramarital Relations - psychology
Female
Guilt
Humans
Intervention
Male
Masturbation
Mental health care
Nineteenth Century
Patients
Psychology
Public Health
Sexual Behavior
Sexual Behavior - psychology
Sexual disorders
Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological - diagnosis
Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological - psychology
Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological - therapy
Social Sciences
Symptoms
Typology
Canada
Sex addiction
Masturbation
Typology
Sexual disorders
Hypersexuality
Sexual compulsivity
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Summary:Men and women have been seeking professional assistance to help control hypersexual urges and behaviors since the nineteenth century. Despite that the literature emphasizes that cases of hypersexuality are highly diverse with regard to clinical presentation and comorbid features, the major models for understanding and treating hypersexuality employ a “one size fits all” approach. That is, rather than identify which problematic behaviors might respond best to which interventions, existing approaches presume or assert without evidence that all cases of hypersexuality (however termed or defined) represent the same underlying problem and merit the same approach to intervention. The present article instead provides a typology of hypersexuality referrals that links individual clinical profiles or symptom clusters to individual treatment suggestions. Case vignettes are provided to illustrate the most common profiles of hypersexuality referral that presented to a large, hospital-based sexual behaviors clinic, including: (1) Paraphilic Hypersexuality, (2) Avoidant Masturbation, (3) Chronic Adultery, (4) Sexual Guilt, (5) the Designated Patient, and (6) better accounted for as a symptom of another condition.
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ISSN:0004-0002
1573-2800
DOI:10.1007/s10508-013-0085-1