Thaddeus Birchard is the founder of the Marylebone Centre. He has an MSc in psychosexual therapy and a doctorate in the treatment of hypersexual disorders. He is accredited by the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies and is the founder of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity. He is the author of CBT for Compulsive Sexual Behaviour: A Guide for Professionals and Overcoming Sexual Addiction: A Self-Help Guide (both Routledge). Joanna Benfield (MPhil) is a psychosexual therapist in private practice in London and France. She has a Diploma in Psychosexual and Relationship Therapy, and is a member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP) and the College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists (COSRT).
"""This handbook is essential reading for anyone working academically or clinically in the field of sexuality. It is heavyweight in terms of its authorship and its scope and approach to the issues of out of control sexual behaviour, covering behavioural, psychological, social, and neurological contributory processes. It presents a balance of the arguments for and against the concept of sexual addiction and discusses varying treatment options. As such, it should also be required reading for all therapeutic students as they formulate their own ways of working with this ubiquitous clinical presentation."" - Dr Glyn Hudson Allez, Forensic Psychosexual Therapist, Fellow of CORST, UK ""This handbook is essential reading for anyone working academically or clinically in the field of sexuality. It is heavyweight in terms of its authorship and its scope and approach to the issues of out of control sexual behaviour, covering behavioural, psychological, social, and neurological contributory processes. It presents a balance of the arguments for and against the concept of sexual addiction and discusses varying treatment options. As such, it should also be required reading for all therapeutic students as they formulate their own ways of working with this ubiquitous clinical presentation."" - Dr Glyn Hudson Allez, Forensic Psychosexual Therapist, Fellow of CORST, UK"