What is sexual addiction? A response to stephen levine

Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 276-281

  Kafka, Martin P ^a,b  

^a MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; CLASSIFICATION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HUMAN; NOMENCLATURE; NOTE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSEXUAL DISORDER;

BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HUMANS; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 77951926305     PISSN: 0092623X     EISSN: 15210715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00926231003719707     Document Type: Note

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