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Making Advances Therapeutic Considerations and Settings for Treating FSLAs

Making Advances Therapeutic Considerations and Settings for Treating FSLAs. SASH Conference 2012 San Antonio, Texas, September 20, 2012 Marnie C. Ferree & Kelly McDaniel. Making Advances: A Comprehensive Guide for Treating Female Sex and Love Addicts. WOMEN ARE DIFFERENT!.

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Making Advances Therapeutic Considerations and Settings for Treating FSLAs

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  1. Making Advances Therapeutic Considerations and Settings for Treating FSLAs SASH Conference 2012 San Antonio, Texas, September 20, 2012 Marnie C. Ferree & Kelly McDaniel Making Advances: A Comprehensive Guide for Treating Female Sex and Love Addicts

  2. WOMEN ARE DIFFERENT! • Women’s bodies are different • Women’s experience in therapy is different • Treating women effectively is different MCF Making Advances: A Comprehensive Guide for Treating Female Sex and Love Addictswww.sash.net/makingadvances

  3. THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP • Especially crucial with women • Therapist’s role: safety, containment, attachment, mothering • Healthy therapist more important than gender MCF Making Advances: A Comprehensive Guide for Treating Female Sex and Love Addictswww.sash.net/makingadvances

  4. 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 Kelly Making Advances: A Comprehensive Guide for Treating Female Sex and Love Addictswww.sash.net/makingadvances

  5. ROLE OF SETTING • Wardrobe • Environment • Energy • Touch Kelly Making Advances: A Comprehensive Guide for Treating Female Sex and Love Addictswww.sash.net/makingadvances

  6. TRANSFERENCE, COUNTERTRANSFERENCE AND ENACTMENTS Show media clip from HBO’s “In Treatment” (“Transference” episode) http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=pNWv5nkpyng&NR=1 MCF & Kelly Making Advances: A Comprehensive Guide for Treating Female Sex and Love Addictswww.sash.net/makingadvances

  7. TRANSFERENCE, COUNTERTRANSFERENCE AND ENACTMENTS Questions to prompt audience discussion (small groups?) about clip Kelly Making Advances: A Comprehensive Guide for Treating Female Sex and Love Addictswww.sash.net/makingadvances

  8. TRANSFERENCE, COUNTERTRANSFERENCE AND ENACTMENTS • “Furor therapeuticus” of transference • Responsibility of handling counter-transference • Enactments: a “jointly created interaction” MCF Making Advances: A Comprehensive Guide for Treating Female Sex and Love Addictswww.sash.net/makingadvances

  9. THERAPIST SELF-DISCLOSURE • Pros and cons • Intentional versus “accidental” • Affective disclosure MCF Making Advances: A Comprehensive Guide for Treating Female Sex and Love Addictswww.sash.net/makingadvances

  10. TREATMENT SETTINGS • Outpatient • Clinical workshop / Intensive outpatient • Inpatient or “residential” treatment • Supportive housing MCF Making Advances: A Comprehensive Guide for Treating Female Sex and Love Addicts www.sash.net/makingadvances

  11. LEVELS OF TREATMENT • Beginning stage • Middle stage • Ending stage Kelly Making Advances: A Comprehensive Guide for Treating Female Sex and Love Addicts www.sash.net/makingadvances

  12. Making AdvancesA Comprehensive Guide for TreatingFemale Sex and Love Addicts Edited by Marnie C. Ferree Writers: Susan J. Campling Robin Cato M. Deborah Corley Marnie C. Ferree Linda Hudson Alexandra Katehakis Kelly McDaniel Anna Valenti-Anderson Jill Vermeire Sonnee Weedn All proceeds benefit the Society for the Advancement of Sexual Healthwww.sash.net/makingadvances

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