TY - JOUR
T1 - Classifying Hypersexual Disorders
T2 - Compulsive, Impulsive, and Addictive Models
AU - Stein, Dan J.
N1 - Funding Information:
Dr. Stein is supported by the Medical Research Council of South Africa.
PY - 2008/12
Y1 - 2008/12
N2 - Patients with clinically excessive sexual thoughts or behaviors have been categorized as suffering from a compulsive, impulsive, or addictive sexual disorder. Similar considerations apply to a range of other impulse control disorders, such as excessive gambling. We have elsewhere proposed that in such conditions, phenomenological and psychobiological considerations suggest that key components include affective dysregulation, behavioral addiction, and cognitive dyscontrol. We argue here that there are advantages to using terms (such as hypersexual disorder) that go beyond the compulsive-impulsive-addictive delineation, and we advocate that additional work to characterize the phenomenology and psychobiology of hypersexual disorder and other conditions characterized by affective dysregulation, behavioral addiction, and cognitive dyscontrol be undertaken in the hope it will lead to improved assessment and management.
AB - Patients with clinically excessive sexual thoughts or behaviors have been categorized as suffering from a compulsive, impulsive, or addictive sexual disorder. Similar considerations apply to a range of other impulse control disorders, such as excessive gambling. We have elsewhere proposed that in such conditions, phenomenological and psychobiological considerations suggest that key components include affective dysregulation, behavioral addiction, and cognitive dyscontrol. We argue here that there are advantages to using terms (such as hypersexual disorder) that go beyond the compulsive-impulsive-addictive delineation, and we advocate that additional work to characterize the phenomenology and psychobiology of hypersexual disorder and other conditions characterized by affective dysregulation, behavioral addiction, and cognitive dyscontrol be undertaken in the hope it will lead to improved assessment and management.
KW - Compulsive
KW - Hypersexual disorder
KW - Impulsive
KW - Sexual addiction
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=55249126672&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.psc.2008.06.007
DO - 10.1016/j.psc.2008.06.007
M3 - Review article
C2 - 18996299
AN - SCOPUS:55249126672
SN - 0193-953X
VL - 31
SP - 587
EP - 591
JO - Psychiatric Clinics of North America
JF - Psychiatric Clinics of North America
IS - 4
ER -