Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction

Mark Laaser (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2004 | Revised edition
Zondervan (Verlag)
978-0-310-25657-1 (ISBN)

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A former sex addict himself, Dr. Mark Laaser offers help and hope for regaining and maintaining sexual integrity, self-control, and wholesome, biblical sexuality.

Hope--real hope--for recovery is within reach. This book goes beyond cliché answers and offers meaningful, spiritual, and practical steps to healing and freedom from sexual addiction--or any addiction.

With today's rampant availability of Internet pornography, sexual addiction has become a national epidemic that affects an increasing number of Christians, even pastors and priests. As devastating as any drug habit, it brings heartbreak and despair to those it entangles. But there is help for men and women caught in sexual addiction's downward spiral.

This book offers a path that leads beyond compulsive thoughts and behaviors to healing and transformation. Speaking from his own experience with sexual addiction and recovery, Dr. Mark Laaser is sensitive to the shame of sexual addiction without minimizing its sinfulness. He traces the roots of the problem, discusses its patterns and impact, and maps out a biblical approach to self-control and sexual integrity.

Whether you know someone with a sexual addiction or struggle yourself, Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction points the way to understanding, wholeness, and holiness.

Spanish edition also available; previously titled Faithful and True.

Mark Laaser, MDiv, PhD, is the founder of Faithful & True, a Christian-based counseling center in Minneapolis, specializing in sexual addiction. Dr. Laaser is regarded as the leading sexual addiction authority in the Christian counseling community. He is author of many books, including Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction, Becoming a Man of Valor, Taking Every Thought Captive, and The 7 Principles of Highly Accountable Men.

Contents

Foreword to the Second Edition: Faithful and True 7
Foreword to the First Edition: The Secret Sin 9
Acknowledgments 11
There Is Hope 13

Part 1: What Is Sexual Addiction?

1. Sexual Addiction and Sin 23

2. Building-Block Behaviors of Sex Addicts 28

3. Types of Sexual Addiction 36

4. Understanding and Identifying the Characteristics
of Sexual Addiction 45

Part 2: The Roots of Sexual Addiction

5. Unhealthy Family Dynamics 73

6. Family Abuse 92

7. How Sex Addicts Cope with Abuse 109

Part 3: Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction

8. The Journey of Healing 121

9. Confronting the Sex Addict 140

10. Treatment Issues in Sexual Addiction 148

11. Healing for Couples 170

Part 4: Healing the Wounds of the Church

12. Sexually Addicted Pastors and Priests 193

13. Healing for Congregations 208

Conclusion 222

Notes 225

Resources 228

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.8.2004
Vorwort	Gary Smalley/Patrick Carnes Ph.D.
Verlagsort	Grand Rapids
Sprache	englisch
Maße	134 x 203 mm
Gewicht	213 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
ISBN-10	0-310-25657-7 / 0310256577
ISBN-13	978-0-310-25657-1 / 9780310256571
Zustand	Neuware