Outpatient Treatment of Sex and Love Addicts

Many treatment programmes and professional training efforts have been developed in the past five years for sexual compulsiveness and love dependencies. This work includes a description of an intensive outpatient therapy programme that is designed to treat the sexually addicted patient. Initially, these patients had been treated with individual psychotherapy and attendance at Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous meetings. While this approach seemed to work for some, many needed more intensive therapeutic intervention to help them identify and maintain bottom line behaviours and to begin the recovery process from this difficult addiction.