Making Advances Therapeutic Considerations and Settings for Treating FSLAs
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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
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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
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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
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TRANSFERENCE, COUNTERTRANSFERENCE
AND ENACTMENTS
Questions to prompt audience discussion (small groups?) about clip
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Kelly
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TRANSFERENCE, COUNTERTRANSFERENCE
AND ENACTMENTS
• “Furor therapeuticus” of
transference
• Responsibility of handling counter-transference
• Enactments: a “jointly created
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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
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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