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“What is Sexual Addiction?” A Response to Stephen Levine

Martin P. Kafka McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Pages 276-281 | Published online: 27 Apr 2010

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Santiago Delboy. (2015) Evidence-Based Practice for Sex Addiction: A Clinical Case Illustration. Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity 22:4, pages 273-289.
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Karen Griffee, Stephen L. O’Keefe, Keith W. Beard, Debra H. Young, Martin J. Kommor, Thomas D. Linz, Sam Swindell & Sandra S. Stroebel. (2014) Human Sexual Development is Subject to Critical Period Learning: Implications for Sexual Addiction, Sexual Therapy, and for Child Rearing. Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity 21:2, pages 114-169.
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Belinda Winder, Rebecca Lievesley, Adarsh Kaul, Helen Jane Elliott, Karen Thorne & Kerensa Hocken. (2014) Preliminary evaluation of the use of pharmacological treatment with convicted sexual offenders experiencing high levels of sexual preoccupation, hypersexuality and/or sexual compulsivity. The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology 25:2, pages 176-194.
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Stephanie Montgomery-Graham. (2017) Out-of-Control Sexual Behavior in Women. Current Sexual Health Reports 9:4, pages 200-206.
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Stephanie Montgomery-Graham. (2017) Conceptualization and Assessment of Hypersexual Disorder: A Systematic Review of the Literature. Sexual Medicine Reviews 5:2, pages 146-162.
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Mary B. Short, Chad T. Wetterneck, Steven L. Bistricky, Tim Shutter & Tannah E. Chase. (2016) Clinicians’ Beliefs, Observations, and Treatment Effectiveness Regarding Clients’ Sexual Addiction and Internet Pornography Use. Community Mental Health Journal 52:8, pages 1070-1081.
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Marcelo Piquet-Pessôa, Gabriela M. Ferreira, Isabela A. Melca & Leonardo F. Fontenelle. (2014) DSM-5 and the Decision Not to Include Sex, Shopping or Stealing as Addictions. Current Addiction Reports 1:3, pages 172-176.
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Kenneth J. Zucker. (2013) DSM-5: Call for Commentaries on Gender Dysphoria, Sexual Dysfunctions, and Paraphilic Disorders. Archives of Sexual Behavior 42:5, pages 669-674.
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Barry Reay, Nina Attwood & Claire Gooder. (2012) Inventing Sex: The Short History of Sex Addiction. Sexuality & Culture 17:1, pages 1-19.
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Timothy W. Fong, Rory C. Reid & Iman Parhami. (2012) Behavioral Addictions. Psychiatric Clinics of North America 35:2, pages 279-296.
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Rory C. Reid, Sheila Garos, Bruce N. Carpenter & Eli Coleman. (2011) A Surprising Finding Related to Executive Control in a Patient Sample of Hypersexual Men. The Journal of Sexual Medicine 8:8, pages 2227-2236.
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