Sexual Addiction - Non-SAA Books

	"SAA Green Book": Sex Addicts Anonymous (From Shame to Grace) by International Service Organization of SAA This is the official basic text of SAA. In this book, members, groups, and the general public will find the SAA program of recovery drawn and written from the experience, strength, and hope of the fellowship
	Title: Hope and Recovery: A Twelve Step Guide for Healing from Compulsive Sexual Behavior Author: Anonymous Members of SCA (Sexual Compulsives Anonymous) Publisher: Hazelden Publishing A Twelve Step guide for healing from compulsive sexual behavior. Developed and written by recovering people, this compelling, inspirational work offers a unique combination of practical help and healing insights. 327 pages.
	Title: Hope and Recovery: The Workbook Author: Anonymous Members of SCA (Sexual Compulsives Anonymous) Publisher: Hazelden Publishing A companion to Hope and Recovery. Helps bring the text of that book into practice in the sex addict's life.
	Title: Answers in the Heart: Daily Meditations Contains a short meditation for each day of the year. The only daily meditation book written specifically for sex addicts. Written by a man and a woman recovering from sex addiction, these 366 meditations offer both female and male perspectives.
	Title: Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions Author: Anonymous Publisher: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services ISBN: 0916856011
	Title: A Gentle Path Through the Twelve Steps Author: Patrick Carnes Publisher: Hazelden Information Education ISBN: 1568380585
	Title: Out of the Shadows, Author: Patrick Carnes One of the original books on sexual addiction and still a classic! Dr. Carnes is a foremost therapist and world-renowned speaker on addiction and recovery issues. 173 pages.
	Title: Contrary to Love Author: Patrick Carnes Publisher: Compcare Publications ISBN: 1568380593
	Title: It Works: How and Why: The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Narcotics Anonymous Author: Anonymous Publisher: Narcotics Anonymous World Service Organization ISBN: 1557761817
	Title: Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous Author: Augustine Fellowship Staff Publisher: Augusting Fellowship ISBN: 0961570113
	Title: Alcoholics Anonymous (The "Big Book") Author: Anonymous Publisher: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services ISBN: 1893007170

Disclosing Secrets: When, to Whom, and How Much to Reveal

“We are only as sick as the secrets we keep." This central tenet of recovery from addiction celebrates the liberating, healing experience of disclosure. But the actual process of revealing sensitive secrets related to addiction can be difficult, even excruciating. With a straightforward, step-by-step approach, Jennifer Schneider and Debra Corley help readers discern the type of information that is advisable to share as well as develop a plan for constructive disclosure. Topics include: what, when, and how to tell, who to involve, what (if anything) to tell children, what information to share at work, church, and in the community. Disclosing Secrets serves as a guidebook for healing as well, offering reassurance that relationships can be repaired and renewed after disclosure.

Towards a New Freedom: Discovering a Healthy Sexuality

Dr. Carnes’ popular “New Freedom” lecture is based on the sexual health program Carnes developed for his book, Sexual Anorexia. This two hour lecture traces the history of sex to the present time and shows how to face the challenges of being sexual in our culture. Challenging, warm, and funny, these CDs are a wonderful map to a better sexual life.

Facing the Shadow

Starting Sexual and Relationship Recovery is the first to take techniques used by thousands of recovering sex addicts and show readers, step by step, how to break free of problematic sexual behaviors and live a healthier, more fulfilling life. A task-centered, competency-based, effective approach to recovery from compulsive behaviors. Dr Carnes, through years of research, has found that if recovering addicts did certain tasks, they got better. If they did not, their life would remain problem-filled. Performing these tasks essentially creates skills that enable recovering individuals to manage their illness and to live rich, full, and relapse-free lives - and systematically following this process generates a positive outcome in all but about three percent of cases

Clinical Management of Sex Addiction

This is the first comprehensive volume of the clinical management of sex addiction. Collecting the work of 28 leaders in this emerging field, the editors provide a long-needed primary text about how to approach treatment with these challenging patients. The book serves as an excellent introduction for professional new to the field as well as serving as a useful reference tool. The contributors are literally the pioneers of one of the last frontiers of addiction medicine and sex therapy. With a growing awareness of sex addiction as a problem, plus the advent of cybersex compulsion, professional clinicians are being confronted with sexual compulsion with little clinical or academic preparation. This is the first book distilling the experience of the leaders in this emerging field. With a focus on special populations, it also becomes a handy problem-solving tool. Readable, concise, and filled with useful interventions, it is a key text for a problem clinicians must be able to identify. It is destined to be a classic reference.

The Betrayal Bond: Breaking Free of Exploitive Relationships

The 12-part PBS video series centered on the work of Dr. Patrick Carnes. Each one-hour tape takes the listener through a specialized area of addiction and recovery. (Available as a complete set or individually.)

One crucial issue links domestic abuse, child abuse, sexual harassment and exploitation, cult membership, kidnapping and addiction: In a savage psychic twist, what hurts most often becomes compulsive. Victims bond with their perpetrators to the stunning point that they will die rather than leave or escape. "This book will create a new wave of understanding about sexuality and the dynamics in intimate sexual relationships." While traumatic bonding has long been recognized by the therapeutic community, Carnes’ breakthrough book focuses on how betrayal intensifies trauma and illuminates the keys to escaping destructive relationships. Blending the latest breakthroughs in both trauma and addiction work, this offers hope and healing.

Video: Contrary to Love: Helping the Sexual Addict - Tapes 1-12

Audio - Multiple Addictions: A Workshop on Multiple Addictions

The leading challenge for addiction recovery is not establishing sobriety, but rather maintaining sobriety. Taught by Dr. Patrick Carnes, the workshop is designed to introduce therapists to the concept of “task centered” therapy. Specific topics to be covered are:
Motivation to come to your own assistance
The role of addiction interaction
Cybersex and accessing the unresolved
The internal tasks of restructuring of relationship w With self-abuse, shame, and grief
The external tasks of creating a recovery system: Work, finances, family, and physical well-being
Establishing a “zone” for recovery

Video

Addicted to Sex - A video about Sexual Addiction. This documentary is a rare uninhibited look at sexual addiction. A cross-section of sex addicts tell their stories honestly and openly, taking us from their first childhood sexual experiences through their worst act of compulsion to how they are recovering today. Interwoven with the testimonies, three sex addiction specialists discuss the history and treatment of this disorder. Some strong language. A good outreach tool. (Black & White, 58 minutes).

Book "The Circle of Life The Process of Sexual Recovery Workbook"

The Circle Of Life workbook was developed to help with the basics of recovery. A strong emphasis is placed on obtaining and utilizing a 12 Step program sponsor. We stress attending sexual addiction support meetings and developing a support system. The intention of this workbook is to work through the 12 Steps with a sponsor to develop an understanding of a Higher Power who will keep us sober (God as we understand God - our own concept of God).

The first three chapters give information on our addiction, seeking help for recovery from sex addiction, the feelings that are associated with coming into sexual sobriety, and withdrawal from active sexual compulsive behavior. Chapters four through twelve are dedicated to working the 12 Steps.

Books

Disclosing Secrets: When, to Whom, and How Much to Reveal

Towards a New Freedom: Discovering a Healthy Sexuality

Facing the Shadow

Clinical Management of Sex Addiction

The Betrayal Bond: Breaking Free of Exploitive Relationships

Video: Contrary to Love: Helping the Sexual Addict - Tapes 1-12

Facing the Shadow: A Workshop on Sexual Addiction Recovery

Audio - Multiple Addictions: A Workshop on Multiple Addictions

Towards a New Freedom: Discovering a Healthy Sexuality

Eroticized Rage: Courtship, Compulsion, and Cybersex

Spiritual Skill Set - Discernment, Part 1

Spiritual Skill Set - Resilience, Part 2

Video

Book "The Circle of Life The Process of Sexual Recovery Workbook"

Facing the Shadow: A Workshop on Sexual Addiction Recovery

		This workshop is designed for understanding patients whose behavior is excessive (sex addiction) or compulsively non-existent (sexual anorexia or aversion), the content of which has been drawn from Dr. Carnes’ extensive research on compulsive sex, Cybersex, and trauma. Specific topics to be covered are: Patient characteristics in the extremes Eroticized rage and other sexualized affect Cybersex and accessing the unresolved The arousal template and the therapist The genesis of compulsive sexual behavior The role of genetics, trauma, and culture Profile of successful recovery Bottom line behavior and the recovery zone The meaning of sexual health

Towards a New Freedom: Discovering a Healthy Sexuality

		Dr. Carnes’ popular “New Freedom” lecture is based on the sexual health program Carnes developed for his book, Sexual Anorexia. This two hour lecture traces the history of sex to the present time and shows how to face the challenges of being sexual in our culture. Challenging, warm, and funny, these CDs are a wonderful map to a better sexual life.
		By: Patrick Carnes, Ph D.

Eroticized Rage: Courtship, Compulsion, and Cybersex

		Each of us has an “arousal template” that governs our sexual attraction and relationships. Developmental problems, trauma and abuse, family messages, and life experiences can significantly damage that template. Key to understanding how that template works is eroticized feelings such as anger, fear, and shame.
		By: Patrick Carnes, Ph.D.

Spiritual Skill Set - Discernment, Part 1 Spiritual Skill Set - Resilience, Part 2

		Gentle Path Press is pleased to bring you this first volume in the series called "Spiritual Skill Set." This remarkable series breaks new ground in helping people explore the basic spiritual dilemmas all of us face, whatever spiritual traditions and practices we use. The skill set comes out of the creativity of Dr. Patrick Carnes and the Voices From AFAR. People who have attended events featuring Dr. Carnes and the “Voices” report the experiences as moving, memorable, helpful, and enjoyable. This first set focuses on problems of discernment and how we determine the right thing to do. We know you will find this first set of tools practical and very helpful. A portion of the proceeds is dedicated to supporting addiction research. Download an audio clip
		By: Patrick Carnes, Ph.D.