TINSA: A Neurological Approach to the Treatment of Sex Addiction

By: Michael Barta PhD LPC CSAT-S

Narrated by: Craig Hannaway

Sexual addiction treatment has long focused on managing the symptoms of addiction with abstinence - a difficult challenge in a world where limitless pornographic gratification is never more than a mouse click away. A new recovery method is needed: one capable of identifying and treating the core cause of addictive behavior.

TINSA is such a program. Created by a preeminent Colorado master clinician, TINSA, or Trauma Induced Sexual Addiction, explores the effects of adverse developmental experiences on a young brain and nervous system and illustrates how the damage caused by those experiences encourages addictive behavior.

Realizing how many sex addicts suffer from abandonment, neglect, and other childhood trauma led TINSA® creator Michael Barta, PhD, LPC, CSAT, to examine how emotional wounding leads to the need to self-regulate the release of the pleasure hormone dopamine through sexual stimuli. As increasing levels of dopamine are required over time to reach the same “high,” by adulthood, self-regulation can produce compulsive, damaging sexual behavior.

Through TINSA, Barta offers the means to treat sex addiction at the source, reducing compulsive sexual behavior over time and providing effective, long-term recovery. TINSA has helped thousands already. It can help you too.

©2017 Michael Barta (P)2020 Michael Barta

Understanding why

The book does a really great job at helping the reader to understand they why behind the actions. Also very well review of the processes needed to take place to help maintain a life of recovery.

Incredibly helpful for addicts and partners

As a trained APSATS LPC, I found this book to be a profoundly helpful resource for both addicts and partners alike. Highly recommend for both sides of betrayal trauma and counselors working with them.

This book was a great explanation of the disease and so wonderfully honest.

I loved the compassion and the simple honesty of this book. It was a good read as a partner of an addict.

A "MUST READ" for anyone in Sex Addiction Recovery

Thought the subject matter would be to clinical for me to grasp but I was wrong...surprised how much sense it made and expanded my knowledge on the "why" of how my addiction came to be.

Great for anyone in recovery

Great info and relatable content as the author is in recovery himself. It often feels recover books are written from an ivory tower and can be almost clinical.