Still, Csandl recently attended a national professional conference on love and sex addiction in Minneapolis, where, he says, a hot topic was serious research on whether the behavior could be rooted in brain chemistry. Treatment Trends is an addictions rehabilitation program.Ĭsandl said he thinks that the idea of sex or love addiction blurs the concept of real addiction to substances and can "lead to misdiagnoses and letting people get into inappropriate forms of treatment."Ĭsandl, who also works with local sex offenders, especially would not recommend a 12-step program for someone with relationship or compulsive-sex problems without having that person do some kind of therapy to get at the root of their problems as well. "There's no psychoactive (mood-altering) substance." "They're out of their minds," says Robert Csandl, executive director of Treatment Trends, Allentown, when asked about those who say people can be addicted to love relationships or sex. Whether there even is such a thing as sex or love addiction - not to mention what causes it - remains a matter of much professional dispute. These ideas do not sit well with everyone in a position to know.
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