ABSTRACT
From an existential perspective, compulsive behaviours, including those associated with sex addiction, are not indicators of a pathology with a specific aetiology. Instead, they are manifestations of an individual’s particular way of relating to their lived experience, for which they are responsible and in respect of which they possess free will. The philosophical basis for the existential understanding of addiction is supported by neuroscience. Working with a sex addict existentially involves the phenomenological clarification of their experience and facilitates them in the identification and ownership of their freedom.
