Don't Call It Love: Recovery From Sexual Addictionby Patrick Carnes |
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- Title:
Don't Call It Love: Recovery From Sexual Addiction
- Reading Level: Paperback
- Binding: Paperback
- No. of Pages: 448
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- Publisher: Bantam
- Pub. Date: 1992-03-01
- ISBN: 0553351389
- Product Size (W x H x L) inches: 5.2 x 1.2 x 8.2
- Shipping Weight: 0.85
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Don't Call It Love: Recovery From Sexual Addiction Review
Source: Product Description"Dr. Patrick Carnes is a creative, pioneering, and courageous human being. His books are changing the lives of thousands!"
"I lost three marriages, all because of affairs." "I became suicidal because of multiple intense involvements."
"I spent money on sex when I needed it for children's clothes."
"I lost promotion opportunities and a special scholarship because my co-workers found out about my sex life."
Every day they face the possibility of destruction, risking their families, fiances, jobs, dignity, and health. They come from all walks of life: ministers, physicians, therapists, politicians, executives, blue-collar workers. Most were abused as children--sexually, physically or emotionally--and saw addictive behavior in their early lives. Most grapple with other addictions as well, but their fiercest battle is with the most astounding prevalent "secret" disorder in America: sexual addiction. Here is a ground-breaking work by the nation's leading professional expert on sexual addiction, based on the candid testimony of more than one thousand recovering sexual addicts in the first major scientific study of the disorder. This essential volume includes not only the revealing findings of Dr. Carne's research with recovering addicts but also advice from the addicts and co-addicts themselves as they work to overcome their compulsive behavior. Positive, hopeful, and practical, Don't Call It Love is a landmark book that helps us better understand all addictions, their causes, and the difficult path to recovery.
Don't Call It Love: Recovery From Sexual Addiction Customer Reviews
Number of reviews: 19 Average Rating:A Fellow Amazon Customer Reviewed this title on: 2010-07-26 and rated it
0 Person found this review helpful, Nice!
The continued education and search for additional information is imperative to addiction.
Aaron Bryant: CSAC, BSW Author A Synchronous Memoir of Addiction and Recovery
A Fellow Amazon Customer Reviewed this title on: 2010-03-29 and rated it
0 Person found this review helpful, I Don't Need Any More Books.
After reading several books about sexual addiction to help me heal and to save our marriage, I found this book. It was so helpful that I saw a light at the end of the long and dark tunnel. It is very realistic, blunt, but caring. A lot of other talks so much about god which didn't really help for me. i do believe in god, don't get me wrong. but for some reason, i needed more facts and knowledge of this awful sickness more than trying to grab something you don't understand. my husband and i read it together and we are working towards our true happiness again. thank you!
A Fellow Amazon Customer Reviewed this title on: 2009-06-18 and rated it
4 People found this review helpful, Most Helpful Book On Sex Addiction And Recovery So Far... Albeit Really Dumb Title
As the wife of a recovering sex addict this book has been immensity helpful. Although it may be dated (and what's up with the title?) it is the best I've read so far (and I ordered about 20 books on the subject) because it deals with the underlying reasons why an addict "acts out" and the causes and faulty belief patterns of the addict. This helps one to understand the shame cycle and how it developed through a rigid and disengaged family life and how the addict uses a quick fix to fill the void, escape, self medicate for the pain caused by low self esteem and high desire for acceptance. This will help recovering sex addicts, porn addicts and their families through the recovery process.
A Fellow Amazon Customer Reviewed this title on: 2008-08-24 and rated it
0 Person found this review helpful, A Masterpiece
this book is a masterpeice for the 12-step program. Even though it is not listed as an " official" SLAA literature, it's been helping many addicts and will help many more. Strongly recommended!
A Fellow Amazon Customer Reviewed this title on: 2008-04-20 and rated it
2 People found this review helpful, Don't Call It Love
Excellent book. I felt so alone and didn't know where to turn. This book helped me see that others are stuggling with the same behaviors that I am. Behaviors that may have endagered my life, but that I am at least able to stop now. Hopefully I'll live through this and become a better person. The person that I believe God wants me to be.
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