Challenging the taboo: Support for the ethical use of touch in psychotherapy with sexually compulsive/addicted clients

Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 141-148

  Hunter, Mic ^a   Struve, Jim ^b  

^a Private Practice   (United States)

^b Private Practice   (United States)

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EID: 84997860594     PISSN: 10720162     EISSN: 15325318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10720169808400156     Document Type: Article

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