making advances therapeutic considerations and settings for treating fslas

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

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

MCF

THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP

• Especially crucial with women

• Therapist’s role: safety, containment, attachment, mothering

• Healthy therapist more important than gender


MCF

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

ROLE OF SETTING

• Wardrobe

• Environment

• Energy

• Touch


Kelly

TRANSFERENCE, COUNTERTRANSFERENCE

AND ENACTMENTS


MCF & Kelly

Show media clip from HBO’s “In Treatment”

(“Transference” episode)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=pNWv5nkpyng&NR=1





AND ENACTMENTS

Questions to prompt audience discussion (small groups?) about clip


Kelly


AND ENACTMENTS

• “Furor therapeuticus” of

transference

• Responsibility of handling counter-transference

• Enactments: a “jointly created

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

MCF

THERAPIST SELF-DISCLOSURE

• Pros and cons

• Intentional versus “accidental”

• Affective disclosure


MCF

TREATMENT SETTINGS

• Outpatient

• Clinical workshop / Intensive

outpatient

• Inpatient or “residential” treatment

• Supportive housing


MCF

LEVELS OF TREATMENT

• Beginning stage

• Middle stage

• Ending stage


Kelly

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

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