Title: What does 'treatment' for Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey entail?
Headings: Weinstein, Spacey scandals prompt questions about treatment for sex addiction, criminal behavior
Weinstein, Spacey scandals prompt questions about treatment for sex addiction, criminal behavior
Content: they're not considered a sex addict." Examples of sexually addicted behavior could include compulsive masturbation, repeated anonymous one-night stands or compulsive consumption of pornography. "Sexual addiction is not an excuse for criminal behavior," says Douglas Weiss , president of the American Association for Sex Addiction Therapy, a recovering sex addict himself and the founder of the treatment facility, Heart to Heart Counseling Center, in Colorado Springs. " Sexual criminals are still responsible for their crimes." The treatment for sexual offenders, including court-ordered psychiatric hospital stays, differs from treatment of non-criminal sexual addiction because they have a "different level of pathology," Weiss says. " It's a different thought process to injure another for your pleasure." "The average specialist in compulsive sexual behavior should not be treating sexual offending behavior because it's its own specialty, with its own risks and tools in place (for treatment)," Olsen says. For instance, "In our clinic, even if someone has not been adjudicated, if they engaged in felony-level sexual behavior (say, molested a child), we put them in a sex-offenders (treatment) group regardless of whether the courts do." More Consequences for the accused: Men who’ve lost jobs or face sexual harassment claims since Harvey Weinstein scandal
Treatment of addicts starts with an assessment of the nature of the patient's issues.