2026-09-22T00:28:50.726830300Zhttps://opus.uleth.ca/server/oai/requestoai:opus.uleth.ca:10133/2022015-06-11T22:15:31Zcom_10133_3346com_10133_1com_10133_296col_10133_3348col_10133_298
ULethbridge OPUS Repository
supervisor
Nixon, Gary
author
Burke, Michelle
author
University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Education
2007-05-12T20:00:15Z
2007-05-12T20:00:15Z
2003
https://hdl.handle.net/10133/202
The processes that are involved in sexual addiction and recovery were explored in this research. A phenomenological-hermeneutic method was employed in interviewing five male recovering sexual addicts. Themes of sexual addiction and recovery were then extrapolated from the words the participants used to express their life experience. Eleven themes characterizing the addiction process emerged from the transcriptions of the participant's in-depth interviews, as well as six themes relating to recovery. It is hoped that a deeper understanding of the sexual addict's internal and external motivations for the use of sex, will be achieved by depicting several addict' experiences in an unfolding story. It is up to readers of this research to draw their own conclusions and to take what is relevant to them from the words of the sexual addicts and the researcher's interpretation of those words. There is one absolute interpretation of the participants' life experiences. This research only suggests possibilities to illuminate interpretations of the lived experiences of the five participants involved.
en_US
Sex addiction -- Case studies
Sex addicts -- Rehabilitation
Dissertations, Academic
The heart of darkness : a journey into chronic sexual addiction and the quest for recovery
Thesis
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