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Women, sex, and addiction : a search for love and power / Charlotte Davis Kasl.
LIBRA - Special RC560.S43 K37 1990
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kasl, Charlotte Sophia, 1938-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex addiction.
- Women--Mental health.
- Women.
- Codependents.
- Love--Psychological aspects.
- Love.
- Control (Psychology).
- Dependency, Psychological.
- Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological.
- Women--psychology.
- Medical Subjects:
- Dependency, Psychological.
- Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological.
- Women--psychology.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 400 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Perennial Library edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Perennial Library, 1990.
- Summary:
- A breakthrough guide to help women understand sexual addiction and sexual codependency and to lead them to recovery. Women will learn to experience their sexuality as a source of love and positive power, and sex as an expression that honors the soul as well as the body.
- Contents:
- 1. Sexuality and spirituality
- 2. The nature of addiction : seeing the body but not the soul
- 3. The nature of codependency : who am I
- 4. Sex addiction and sexual codependency : what are they
- 5. Will someone please help me : Gerri, Martha, and Anita
- 6. From Grace kelly to prostitution : how sex addiction and codependency intertwine
- 7. Relationships : bonded with love or addiction
- 8. Appraisal : are you wondering about yourself
- 9. Anything to fill up this emptiness : one addiction or many
- 10. Conflicting values : sex, addiction, masochism, and violence
- 11. We are all more alike than different : lesbianism, heterosexuality, and bisexuality
- 12. Men : behind the myths
- 13. How did I get this way : culture, family, and the grace of God
- 14. I surrender : the process of recovery
- 15. Wellness : body, mind, and spirit
- 16. Rx for the culture
- 17. Codependent sobriety : "Know the truth and the truth shall set you free"
- 18. On the path of recovery : where are they now?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-394) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0060973218
- 9780060973216
- OCLC:
- 20492279
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