ABSTRACT
As with any addiction, group psychotherapy for patients who identify as sex and love addicts is integral to the recovery process. The shame and secrecy is deeper and more debilitating for people whose obsessive, compulsive behaviours relate to such basic needs as love and sex. This chapter explores how a psychotherapy group can provide a safe environment to become honest, open and willing to change, offering the opportunity for ‘cross talk’ or feedback and consistency in membership and size. The author suggeststhat the group presents an excellent environment for maturation, developing intimacy skills, reducing isolation, experiencing healthy vulnerability, and having cathartic and corrective emotional encounters.
