A01=Barry Reay
A01=Claire Gooder
A01=Nina Attwood
addiction
Author_Barry Reay
Author_Claire Gooder
Author_Nina Attwood
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Category=JMU
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homosexuality
mental health
pyschotherapy
sex
sex addiction
sexual history
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- ISBN 9780745670362
- Weight: 313g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 12 Jun 2015
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The concept of sex addiction took hold in the 1980s as a product of cultural anxiety. Yet, despite being essentially mythical, sex addiction has to be taken seriously as a phenomenon. Its success as a purported malady lay with its medicalization, both as a self-help movement in terms of self-diagnosis, and as a rapidly growing industry of therapists treating the new disease. The media played a role in its history, first with TV, the tabloids and the case histories of claimed celebrity victims all helping to popularize the concept, and then with the impact of the Internet.
This book is a critical history of an archetypically modern sexual syndrome. Reay, Attwood and Gooder argue that this strange history of social opportunism, diagnostic amorphism, therapeutic self-interest and popular cultural endorsement is marked by an essential social conservatism: sex addiction has become a convenient term to describe disapproved sex. It is a label without explanatory force.
This book will be essential reading for those interested in sexuality studies, contemporary history, psychology, psychiatry, sociology, media studies and studies of the Internet. It will also be of interest to doctors and therapists currently working in this and related fields.
This book is a critical history of an archetypically modern sexual syndrome. Reay, Attwood and Gooder argue that this strange history of social opportunism, diagnostic amorphism, therapeutic self-interest and popular cultural endorsement is marked by an essential social conservatism: sex addiction has become a convenient term to describe disapproved sex. It is a label without explanatory force.
This book will be essential reading for those interested in sexuality studies, contemporary history, psychology, psychiatry, sociology, media studies and studies of the Internet. It will also be of interest to doctors and therapists currently working in this and related fields.
Barry Reay holds the Keith Sinclair Chair in History at the University of Auckland.
Claire Gooder is Lecturer in History at the University of Auckland
Nina Attwood is Lecturer in History at the University of Auckland
Claire Gooder is Lecturer in History at the University of Auckland
Nina Attwood is Lecturer in History at the University of Auckland
