Facing the Shadow [3rd Edition]: Starting Sexual and Relationship Recovery - Patrick Carnes - Patrick Carnes

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For all addicts, a moment comes when they realize they have a problem.
Patrick Carnes, PhD , is a therapist, speaker, trainer, and author whose books include Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction , A Gentle Path Through the Twelve Steps , Contrary to Love: Helping the Sexual Addict , and Don\'t Call It Love: Recovery From Sexual Addiction ..
The model also supports Twelve Step Recovery programs.
This newly revised and expanded edition takes readers through the first seven of those tasks, including specific performables that are built in to the exercises.
Facing the Shadow , used by thousands of therapists with their clients, is based on the thirty-task model of Recovery from addiction that forms the basis of Carnes\'s work.
Starting with those gentle words, he guides readers through a series of reflections and exercises that pierce denial and light the path to healing from sex addiction.
Patrick Carnes in the introduction to Facing the Shadow .
If any of those thoughts occur to you, you are exactly where you should be, notes Dr.
I\'m just too perverted to change.
Or, This is hopeless.
People are over-reacting to my behavior. . . .
This will all blow over. . . .
People struggling with sex addiction find the old refrains creeping back into their thinking: My situation is different.
It is easily lost to craving and denial.
That moment, however, is fragile.
There is sudden clarity--the insight that life has become unmanageable.
For all addicts, a moment comes when they realize they have a problem