As Woods Apologizes, What Doctors Have to Say About Sex Addiction
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In apologizing for his high-profile sex scandal, golfer Tiger Woods said today that he has been in intensive therapy for 45 days and will be returning for more sessions starting tomorrow. His reference to his affairs and “repeated irresponsible behavior” prompts us to take a closer look at a condition that many call sex addiction.
Actually, sex addiction currently isn’t considered a specific disorder in the primary reference for psychiatric diagnoses, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. But a condition called hypersexual disorder — which sounds a lot like sex addiction - has been proposed for inclusion in the next version of the manual, called DSM-V, which is set to be published in 2013.
The concept of sex addiction “sprung out of the clinical observations of many front-line clinicians that there are people who struggle with what they feel is excessive sexual behavior that is getting them into trouble in some ways,” Kenneth Zucker tells the Health Blog. He’s chairman of the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM-V workgroup on sexual and gender identity disorders and psychologist-in-chief at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto.
There’s a need for clinicians to recognize this group of individuals, according to the committee chaired […]
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