False Intimacy: Understanding the Struggle of Sexual Addiction

by Harry Schaumburg

Publisher:

Tyndale

, 2013

Overview

With frank honesty, False Intimacy offers realistic direction to those whose lives or ministries have been impacted by sexual addiction while examining the roots behind these behaviors. This compelling book examines different aspects of sexual addiction, including shame, purity, and forgiveness, while exploring one’s true identity and God-given sexuality.

Key Features

• Offers realistic direction to those whose lives or ministries have been impacted by sexual addiction.
• Examines different aspects of sexual addiction, including shame, purity, and forgiveness.
• Explores one’s true identity and God-given sexuality.

Contents

• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• CHAPTER 1: What Is Sexual Addiction?
• CHAPTER 2: Sexually Addictive Behaviors
• CHAPTER 3: What Causes Sexual Addiction?
• CHAPTER 4: Hope for Those Who Are Sexually Addicted
• CHAPTER 5: Responding to Your Sexually Addicted Spouse
• CHAPTER 6: The Recovering Marriage
• CHAPTER 7: Women and False Intimacy
• CHAPTER 8: Preventing Sexual Addiction in Your Children
• CHAPTER 9: Sexual Addiction in the Church
• CHAPTER 10: The Church as a Healing Community
• CHAPTER 11: Healing for Christian Leaders
• APPENDIX A: Indicators of Childhood Sexual Abuse
• APPENDIX B: Ministry Resources
• APPENDIX C: Recommended Reading
• Notes
• Author

Product Details

• Title: False Intimacy: Understanding the Struggle of Sexual Addiction
• Author: Harry Schaumburg
• Publisher: Tyndale
• Print Publication Date: 2013
• Logos Release Date: 2013
• Pages: 256
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Sex addicts—Religious life; Sex addiction—Religious aspects — Christianity; Intimacy (Psychology) — Religious aspects—Christianity; Sex addicts—Rehabilitation; Sex addiction — Treatment
• ISBNs: 9781576830284, 9781641582353, 9781641582360, 1600065236, 1641582359, 1641582367, 9781600065231, 1576830284
• Resource ID: LLS:9781600065231
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-28T19:00:53Z

About Harry Schaumburg

HARRY W. SCHAUMBURG, MA, MS, DMin, LMFT, speaker, author and counselor, is the founder and Executive Director of Stone Gate Resources, Inc., a ministry that has addressed the problems of sexual sin within the church for more than eighteen years. Offering real change, his pioneering Brief Intensive CounselingSM program has drawn over two thousand five hundred laity and clergy from the U.S. and eighteen foreign countries. For nearly thirty years, Dr. Schaumburg has been involved in pointing people away from sexual sin to restored intimacy with God and others. He is the author of False Intimacy: Understanding the Struggle of Sexual Addiction, the first book on the subject from a biblical perspective, and Sexual Redemption. Married forty years to his wife Rosemary, they have two adult sons.