Crazy for You

Breaking the Spell of Sex and Love Addiction

De: Kerry Cohen PsyD LPC PsyD LPC

Narrado por: Anna Caputo

A psychologist and bestselling author redefines love and sex addiction as a spectrum disorder, and offers a new approach for healing.

For anyone who has wondered
Why does everyone else seem to be able to make romantic relationships work, and I can’t?
What’s wrong with me?
Why is love so hard?

Psychologist and bestselling memoirist Kerry Cohen is all too familiar with the questions she often hears from her clients—and has asked herself. Even though sex and love are some of the most universal, sought-after experiences we have, many of us lack the tools and understanding to approach them in a healthy way. Without knowing it, many people struggling with sex and love actually fall somewhere on the spectrum of sex and love addiction (SLA).

Sex and love addiction is still wildly misunderstood. It’s shrouded in secrecy and shame, and many counselors lack the training to address it—leaving people who need help without resources. Yet SLA isn’t a binary of you are or you aren’t, rather, it’s a spectrum. Kerry Cohen knows this all too well as both a therapist and someone who identifies on the SLA spectrum. Based on research and her own clinical experience, Crazy for You dives into SLA and provides an inclusive framework for understanding relationships, along with practical exercises and advice for self-assessment, discovery, and healing:

• Part one explains the sex and love addiction spectrum, helping you determine where you fall on it and how you got there
• Part two introduces strategies for breaking the spell of sex and love addiction, like behavior modifications and self-awareness techniques
• Part three teaches you how to navigate healthy, safe, and fulfilling relationships

Reseñas de la Crítica

"In exploring Sex and Love Addiction as a broad and varied spectrum, Kerry Cohen's Crazy for You seems destined to resonate with just about anyone who has ever been in an unhappy or insecure relationship (in other words: almost everyone). If you fall on the Sex and Love Addiction Spectrum (SLAS), this book is full of practical tools for breaking unhealthy patterns that prevent true intimacy, and provides a language and context for self-sabotaging patterns. But better yet, Cohen illustrates that between all-too-common childhood wounds, the pervasiveness of a patriarchal/racist/classist culture, and media portrayals of 'romance,' it would be virtually impossible for anyone not to recognize some aspect of our lives and the lives of those close to us in these pages. Crazy for You encourages all readers to consider our own relationships--even the happy ones--more mindfully and to move towards self-healing amidst a flawed world." —Gina Frangello, author of Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason

"Sex and love addiction is one of the most challenging addictive habits: it promises us love but leaves us broken hearted and alone. Kerry Cohen offers a compassionate, comprehensive approach to healing.”—Kelly McDaniel, LPC, NCC,, author of Mother Hunger and Ready to Heal

Praise for Loose Girl
"Cohen's brutal honesty about her relentless request for companionship is refreshingly relatable."—Entertainment Weekly

"Cohen recounts her harrowing litany of hookups through clear, poignant, spare-no-details prose."—Marie Claire

Praise for Lush
"Raw, intimate and brave, Lush tears apart the usual advice about drinking and addiction (guess what, AA isn't the only answer), and chronicles Cohen's journey toward a healing that at first she can only image. Gorgeously written and audaciously intelligent, here is a controversial and compelling look at finding your own way back."—Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Is This Tomorrow and Pictures of You

"Kerry Cohen applies her legendary wit and sagacity to women's often subtly destructive dance with alcohol. With great vulnerability and dynamic prose, Cohen examines her own descent into the bottle, its ruinous consequences, and her courageous fight to find her footing in her real life again. This is a story you won't soon forget."—Jillian Lauren, New York Times bestselling memoirist of Some Girls: My Life in a Harem and Everything You Ever Wanted

Fantastic

Well written amazing content. Really enjoyed this. Wish it had a workbook to go along with it for all the exercises/reflections.

Everyone should read this BooK!!

I’m in recovery for much of what the author writes about and she definitely hits the mark. Many excellent tools to help us process our love and sex addictions.

Extremely Helpful

This book was very validating for me as a woman on the SLAS spectrum. I feel like it gave me more tools to unpack and understand my process addiction.

Well written. Easy to comprehend

But seriously. I’ve been through so many relationships exactly like this that it’s like the story of my life.
I’ve been to CoDA meetings, but this goes through the behaviours without judgement. Also glad you briefly covered ENM and polyamory.
So much more to consider when you think of our ancestors personal relationships as well.
Thank you! Kia Ora!

Postmodernism garbage

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