Sex Addiction – Actual Addiction or B.S. Excuse – You Decide

12/05/12 • 57 min

Straight from the DSM Psychiatric Handbook - The American Psychiatric Association publishes and periodically updates the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), a widely recognized compendium of acknowledged mental disorders and their diagnostic criteria. The version published in 1987 (DSM-III-R), referred to "distress about a pattern of repeated sexual conquests or other forms of nonparaphilic sexual addiction, involving a succession of people who exist only as things to be used."[20] The reference to sexual addiction was subsequently removed.[21] The current version, published in 2000 (DSM-IV-TR), no longer mentions sexual addiction as a mental disorder.[22] The DSM-IV-TR still includes a miscellaneous diagnosis called Sexual Disorders Not Otherwise Specified, which now includes: "distress about a pattern of repeated sexual relationships involving a succession of lovers who are experienced by the individual only as things to be used." (Other examples include: compulsive fixation on an unattainable partner, compulsive masturbation, compulsive love relationships, and compulsive sexuality in a relationship.)[22] Even this still-present diagnostic definition does not mention sexual addiction, but focuses on the patient's distress as to their sexual behavior (contrary to the pattern of denial in addiction as mentioned below), not on the sexual behavior itself. Hypersexuality, by itself, can also be a symptom of hypomania and mania in bipolar disorder and schizoaffective disorder, as defined in the DSM-IV-R.

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