Dorothy Hayden
LCSW
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Sex Addiction Therapist Expert
Dorothy Hayden Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- psychology, sexuality
- Career Focus
- psychotherapist
- Affiliation
- Post Graduate Center for Mental Health
Dorothy C. Hayden, LCSW, is a psychoanalyst and sex addiction therapist located in Manhattan, New York. A graduate of New York University,she has been treating sex addicts and their partners for 15 years. She has recently released an e-book, "Total Sex Addiction Recovery-A Guide to Therapy" and has published 40 articles about sex addiction and 50 posts about Internet Porn addiction.
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Who Is A Sex Addict?
A sex addict is a person who misuse sex as means of coping with unwanted feelings and life stressors.
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Who Are Sex Addicts and What are They Looking to Find in Sex?
Who are sex addicts and what are they hoping to find through their compulsive sexual behavior? Sex addicts are people who, afraid of real, intimate relationships, repeatedly and compulsively try to connect with others through highly impersonal, non intimate behaviors: masturbation, empty affairs, frequent visits to prostitutes, voyeurism, and the like.
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The Heavy, Heavy Price of Sex Addiction
Loss of Relationships
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The Mystique of the Dominant Woman - Addiction to Pain
A number of years ago, in conjunction with my work with treating sexual addiction, a number of masochistic or submissive men began to come to me for help. The clients I saw did not seem immature or inferior. In fact, the reverse seemed to be true. They were successful by social standards: professionally, emotionally, and culturally, in marriages or out. They were frequently individuals of inner strength of character, possessed of strong coping skills and an ethical sense of individual responsibility.
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Sex Addiction Is NOT a Moral Issue!
Sex is surely one of the most powerful of all human experiences. It can drive people to the pinnacle of ecstasy or it can spiral others to the depths of self-loathing and despair. Sexual expression is meant to tie, or connect, to our core sense of self. Sexual energy is part of our life force, our energy for creative and productive attainments, and the source of our passion for life.
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Internet Porn Addiction: Not An Easy Nut to Crack
I've been sitting in a room talking to addicts for 25 years. All kinds of addicts. I've participated in the enormous struggles of alcoholics to get sober, cocaine, heroine, methamphetamine, food, love, nicotine, sex...all kinds of addictions. My conclusion, culled from clinical experience, is that internet porn is THE primary addiction and is, by far, the hardest to kick. My intention in comparing my uncle's cocaine addiction that robbed him dry was to show you that the biochemical dysfunctions of a cocaine addict are exactly the same as those of a long-term porn addict.
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Oh, NO!! Not Again!! Preventing Relapse in Sex Addiction Recovery
Relapse in sexual addiction recovery is a reality. While all addictions are relapse prone, it is the sexual recovery community who suffer most from the demoralization of repeated relapse. After all, we can live without ever being around alcohol or drugs, but our sexuality is ever-present. Because ours is a sexualized culture, triggers, cravings, urges, cues, and high-risk situations are everywhere.
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Can Hypnotherapy Help in Treating Sex Addiction?
The usual response to the suggestion to one of my clients that hypnotherapy might be useful in the treatment of sexual addiction is typical of the general public’s misguided understanding of hypnotherapy: “I’m afraid of going into trance – I might lose control”; “You’ll find out things about me that I don’t even know myself”, or, typically, “I’m just not the type to benefit from hypnosis”.
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Sex Addicts: Why Can't They Stop?
Most addicts would stop if they could.
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How 12-Step Programs Heal Sexual Addicts
The rapid mushrooming of individual 12-step programs throughout the nation and the world in the past 50 years has given millions of people suffering from addiction back their lives, their families, their self-respect and their pride.
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The Psychological Underpinnings of Sex Addiction
The diagnosis of sex addiction is the same as every addiction: loss of control and continued behavior despite adverse consequences. Sexual addiction differs from other addictions, however. Our sexuality reflects unconscious conflicts, longings and wishes of which we are not aware.
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Control Your Destiny: See "The Addict" as "Not You"
The True Self is Reality. It sees the activities of the Addict as being what it is: a fantasy growling for what it compulsively seeks: immediate gratification in the form of physical pleasure. Sex addiction is fueled by a fantasy of being how you never thought you were in your youth together of a fantasy of the power over women you've always wanted to have. Do you see how the Addict Self always lives in the past?
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