Sources for More Information

Research on sexual addiction is relatively new, so less information is available than for other addictions. Check with your doctor, local counseling service, or Employee Assistance Program, but you may need to supplement this with information from other sources.

One or more of the recovery programs named above is probably listed in your local telephone directory.

Information on sexual addiction and the recovery groups is available on the Internet. For a list of Internet sites, go to www.yahoo.com. Then click on Health, then Sexuality, then Sexual Addiction.

If you are a spouse or close friend of someone who suffers from this problem, also go to Health, then Mental Health, Addiction and Recovery, and Codependency.

Books available from your local library or bookstore include:

Escape from Intimacy: The Pseudo-Relationship Addictions, by Anne Wilson Schaef. Harper San Francisco, 1990.

Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction, by Patrick Carnes. Compcare Publications, 1992.

Steps of Hope: A 12-Step Recovery Guide for Sex Addiction, by Douglas Weiss. Discovery Press, 1996.

False Intimacy: Understanding the Struggle of Sexual Addiction, by Harry W. Schaumburg. Navpress, 1997.

Don’t Call It Love: Recovery from Sexual Addiction, by Patrick Carnes. Bantam Books, 1992.

Addictive Thinking: Understanding Self-Deception, by Abraham J. Twerski. Hazelden/Rosen, 1997.