Using emotionally focused therapy for couples to resolve attachment ruptures created by hypersexual behavior

Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity

Volumn 13, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 219-239

  Reid, Rory C ^a   Woolley, Scott R ^b  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ALLIANT INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFUSION; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; EMOTIONALITY; FORGIVENESS; FRUSTRATION; HOPELESSNESS; HUMAN; HYPERSEXUALITY; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTIMACY; MARITAL THERAPY; MARRIAGE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; TRUST;

EID: 33748553334     PISSN: 10720162     EISSN: 15325318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10720160600870786     Document Type: Article

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