Making Advances Therapeutic Considerations and Settings for Treating FSLAs

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Making Advances Therapeutic Considerations and Settings for Treating FSLAs. SASH Conference 2012 San Antonio, Texas, September 20, 2012 Marnie C. Ferree & Kelly McDaniel. Making Advances: A Comprehensive Guide for Treating Female Sex and Love Addicts. WOMEN ARE DIFFERENT!. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Making Advances

Therapeutic Considerations andSettings for Treating FSLAs

SASH Conference 2012San Antonio, Texas, September 20,

2012

Marnie C. Ferree & Kelly McDanielMaking Advances: A Comprehensive Guide for Treating Female Sex and Love Addicts

WOMEN ARE DIFFERENT!

• Women’s bodies are different

• Women’s experience in therapy is

different

• Treating women effectively is

different

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THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP

• Especially crucial with women

• Therapist’s role: safety, containment, attachment, mothering

• Healthy therapist more important than gender

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TREATING WOMEN

• Requires a slower pace• May need attachment/trauma work

before able to achieve sobriety

• Task model not as effective• Menstrual cycle affects addictive

cycle and treatment

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ROLE OF SETTING

• Wardrobe

• Environment

• Energy

• Touch

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TRANSFERENCE, COUNTERTRANSFERENCE

AND ENACTMENTS

Making Advances: A Comprehensive Guide for Treating Female Sex and Love Addictswww.sash.net/makingadvances

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Show media clip from HBO’s “In Treatment”

(“Transference” episode)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=pNWv5nkpyng&NR=1

TRANSFERENCE, COUNTERTRANSFERENCE

AND ENACTMENTS

Questions to prompt audience discussion (small groups?) about clip

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TRANSFERENCE, COUNTERTRANSFERENCE

AND ENACTMENTS

• “Furor therapeuticus” of

transference

• Responsibility of handling counter-transference

• Enactments: a “jointly created

interaction”Making Advances: A Comprehensive Guide for Treating Female Sex and Love Addictswww.sash.net/makingadvances

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THERAPIST SELF-DISCLOSURE

• Pros and cons

• Intentional versus “accidental”

• Affective disclosure

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TREATMENT SETTINGS

• Outpatient

• Clinical workshop / Intensive

outpatient

• Inpatient or “residential” treatment

• Supportive housing

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LEVELS OF TREATMENT

• Beginning stage

• Middle stage

• Ending stage

Making Advances: A Comprehensive Guide for Treating Female Sex and Love Addictswww.sash.net/makingadvances

Kelly

Making AdvancesA Comprehensive Guide for

TreatingFemale Sex and Love Addicts

All proceeds benefit the Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health www.sash.net/makingadvances

Edited by Marnie C. Ferree

Writers:Susan J. CamplingRobin CatoM. Deborah CorleyMarnie C. FerreeLinda HudsonAlexandra KatehakisKelly McDanielAnna Valenti-AndersonJill VermeireSonnee Weedn

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