Patrick J. Carnes, PhD, is author of more than 20 books on addiction and recovery. He is the founding architect of the International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals, and the Gentle Path and Willow House programs for sexual and trauma disorders. He served as visiting professor of Brain Science at the University of Alberta Medical School and Fulbright Scholar focusing on genotypes in sex addiction.

Kenneth M. Adams, PhD, CSAT-S, is a licensed psychologist, faculty member with the International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals and founder/clinical director of Kenneth M. Adams and Associates in Michigan. Heand has written numerous peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, and he is the author of Silently Seduced and When He¿s Married to Mom.

Introduction to the Revised Edition; Section I: The Early Stages; 1. Managing the First Session; 2. The Sexual Addiction Screening Process; 3. Efficiency and Accuracy of the SAST-R and the PATHOS Protocol in Screening for Potential Sex Addiction Cases in a Large, Non-Clinical, Online Sample; 4. Clinical Management of Defense Mechanisms in Sex Addiction; 5. Clinical Guidelines for Working with the Spouse in a Marriage Impacted by Sex Addiction: A Relational Understanding and Approach; 6. A Collaborative Model for Couples in Sex Addiction Recovery; Section II: Treatment and Therapy; 7. Shame Reduction, Affect Regulation, and Sexual Boundary Development; 8. Damaged Development of the Human Affectional Systems and Developmentally Based Psychotherapy for Sexual Compulsivity; 9. How a Little Neurobiology Lets Us Identify and Treat Sex Addiction; 10. Clinical Boundary Issues with Sexually Addicted Clients; 11. Integrating 12-step Recovery in Clinical Treatment of Sex Addiction: A Practical Guide for the Clinician; 12. Integrating the 12 Steps in Couple¿s Recovery from Sexual Addiction; 13. Disclosure of Extra-relational Sexual Activities by Persons With Sexual Addiction: Initial Disclosure, Disclosure of Relapse, and Impact on the Relationship, Partner and Children; Section III: Special Populations; 14. Children of Sex Addicts: The Forgotten Victims; 15. Cybersex Addiction: Anticipating the Tsunami; 16. Art Therapy; 17. The Value of Group Psychotherapy for Sexual Addicts; 18. Psychopharmacologic Intervention Sex Addiction: A Psychiatrist¿s Perspective on the Diagnosis, Neuroscientific Theories and Treatment; 19. Making Advances: Treating Female Sex and Love Addicts; 20. Dysfunctional Sexual Behavior In Borderline Women: Impulsive Sexual Acting-Out Or Sexual Addiction/Compulsivity? ; 21. Pastors and Sex Addiction; 22. Addiction in Health-Care Providers ; 23. The Homeless and Sex Addiction; 24. Treatment Concerns for Gay Male Sex Addicts (2015 Edition) ; 25. The Sex Addicted Adolescent Client; Section IV: Clinical Practice and Resources; 26. The Treatment of Sex Offenders Using a Task Centered Approach 27.Sex Addiction as a Disease: Evidence for Assessment, Diagnosis and Response to Critics; 28. Long-term Management of Sex Addiction