Books:
Courageous Love
In Courageous Love, Dr. Stefanie Carnes provides a step-by-step guide for repairing your relationship, whether it is damaged by infidelity, pornography or compulsive and addictive sexual behavior. Dr. Carnes teaches couples how to respond to one another with compassion and empathy and how to hold onto hope for their relationship. She outlines a detailed process to getting your relationship back on track and into a new stage of development. This book is a must read for couples struggling with the aftermath of betrayal.
Mending a Shattered Heart
Anyone who has discovered their loved one, the one person that they are supposed to trust completely, has been cheating on them will want to read this book. Readers have an opportunity to explore whether the person they are in a relationship with is simply behaving badly or truly suffers from a disease called sex addiction. Knowing the difference and knowing what to do about it can be transformational.
Author and editor, Stefanie Carnes brings together several leading experts in the field of sex addiction and family therapy to guide the reader through an assortment of difficult questions, including, Should I stay or should I go?, How Do I Set Boundaries and Keep Myself Safe?, What Does It Mean if My Partner Has Shown an Interest in Minors? and “What should I tell the kids?” Each of these topics are tackled in individual chapters producing a comprehensive guide that offers readers expertise on how to begin the painful road of mending a shattered heart.
All the material in Mending A Shattered Heart is provided in a question and answer format that delves into essential information including therapeutic and practical information that the partner can use right away. This second edition of the book includes a new focus on the impact of the trauma when a partner discovers his or her partner is cheating and what to do about it.
Facing Heartbreak
When you discover that the person you loved and trusted most in the world is hiding a secret life as a sex addict, the result can be devastating. Facing that heartbreak is what this book is all about. The healing process will take time regardless of whether you decide to stay in the relationship or leave.
Facing Heartbreak weaves real life stories with practical therapeutic advice and specific tasks that gently educate, empower, and guide the partner of the sex addict through a process of recovery. Using Dr. Patrick Carnes’ thirty-task sex recovery model, readers will learn to heal from the heartbreak and betrayal as they discover hope and healing.
Facing Addiction
Facing Addiction is the first book to apply Dr. Patrick Carnes’ research-based thirty-task model to treating addiction to alcohol and drugs. People who are addicted to drugs and alcohol now have access to the groundbreaking model that has facilitated thousand of sex addicts in achieving long-lasting recovery. This revolutionary model helps therapists and recovering people understand the interaction between trauma and brain science and how these factors play a role in the development of addiction to drugs and alcohol.
Facing Addiction distills Dr. Carnes’ more than thirty years of research to show addicts how to embrace lasting long-term recovery through a thirty-task model. The first seven tasks are presented to help readers break through denial and participate in a culture of support.
Publications
Carnes, S. (2019) Children of Sex Addicts: The Forgotten Victims. In The Clinical Management of Sex Addiction. Edited by Kenneth Adams and Patrick Carnes. Routledge.
Green, B., Arnau, R. Carnes, P., Carnes, S. DeGuzman, I (2019) Screening for Potential Sex Addiction Cases in a Large, Non-Clinical, Online Sample. Clinical Management of Sex Addiction. Edited by Kenneth Adams and Patrick Carnes. Routledge.
Carnes, S. & Love T. (2017) Separating Models Obscures the Scientific Underpinnings of Sexual Addiction as a Disorder. Archives of Sexual Behavior. Published Online. 25 September 2017.
Carnes, S. (2017) Navigating the Minefield of Facilitated Disclosure: Strategies, Techniques and Potential Pitfalls. In The Routledge International Handbook of Sexual Addiction. Edited by Thaddeus Birchard and Joanna Benfield. Routledge, New York. NY.
Hilton, D., Carnes, S. & Love, T. (2016) The Neuroscience of Behavioral Addictions: Sexual Addiction. In Neurobiology of Addictions Edited by Alan C. Swann, F. Gerard Moeller, and Marijn Lijffijt. Oxford Press.
Carnes, S. & O’Conner, S. (2016) A Confirmatory Analysis of the Partner Sexuality Survey. Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity, Volume 23, Issue 1, pp.141-153.
Nino de Guzman, I, Arnau, R., Green, B., Carnes, S., Carnes, P. & Jore, J (2016) Empirical Identification of Psychological Symptom Subgroups; An Application of Latent Profile Analysis, Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity, Volume 23, Issue 1, pp. 34-55.
Green, B., Arnau, R., Carnes, P., Carnes, S., & Hopkins, T., (2016) Structural Congruence of the Sexual Dependency Inventory – 4th Edition. Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity. Vol. 22, 2, pages 126-153.
Carnes, S & Lee, M. (2014) Picking Up the Pieces: Helping Family Members Survive the Impact of Sex Addiction. In Behavioral Addictions, (Edited book by Ken Rosenberg & Laura Curtiss Feder), Elsevier Press.
Carnes, S., Lee, M., & Rodriguez, A. (2012) Facing Heartbreak: Tasks for Recovery for Partners of Sex Addicts. Gentle Path Press. August, 2012.
Carnes, P., Green, B., Merlo, L., Polles, A., Carnes, S., & Gold, M. (2011). Pathos: A Brief Screening Application for Assessing Sexual Addiction. Journal of Addiction Medicine, Vol. 00, 00, pages XX.
Blum, K., Werner, T., Carnes, S., Carnes, P., Bowirrat, A., Giordano, J., Oscar-Berman, M., & Gold, M. (2012) Sex Drugs and Rock ‘N’ Roll : Hypothesizing Common Mesolimbic Activation as a Function of Reward Gene Polymorphisms. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 44 (1), 1 – 18.
Carnes, P., Green, B., & Carnes, S. (2010). The Same Yet Different: Refocusing the Sexual Addiction Screening Test (SAST) to Reflect Orientation and Gender. Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity, 17, 17-30.
Stefanie Carnes (Ed.) (2008), Mending a Shattered Heart: A Guide for Partners of Sex Addicts. Carefree, AZ: Gentle Path Press.
Merlo, L., Carnes, S. Carnes, P, & Gold, MS. (2008) Hypersexuality Disorders: Addiction, Compulsion or Impulsive Behaviors? Biological Psychiatry 63 (7).
Polles, A., Graham, NA., Carnes, S. (2006) Use and Abuse of Erectile Dysfunction Drugs. Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. 46 (9).
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Carnes, S., & Quinn, W. H. (2005) Family Adaptation to Brain Injury: Coping and Psychological Distress. Family Systems and Health, 30, 2, 186 – 203.
Patterson, J., Edwards, T., & Carnes, S. (2005) Assessment, Diagnosis and Treatment Planning. In Family Therapy Review: Preparing for Comprehensive and Licensing Exams. (Edited book by Robert Coombs), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc.
Patterson, J., Miller, R., Carnes, S. & Wilson, S. (2004) Evidence Based Practice and Family Therapists. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 30, 2, pp.183-195.
Black, C., Carnes, S. & Dillon, D. (2003) Disclosure to Children: Hearing the Child’s Experience. Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity, 10, pp. 67-78.
Posters
Schmidt, N., Clarke, C.B., Augustin, M., Pickard, J.D., & Carnes, S. (2008, September). Hostility in Alcohol & Drug Rehabilitation Patients. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Mississippi Psychological Association, Tunica, MS.
Clarke, C.B., Schmidt, N., Pickard, J.D., Augustin, M., & Carnes, S. (2008, September). Personality Predictors of Rehabilitation Completion. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Mississippi Psychological Association, Tunica, MS
Merlo, L.J., Green, B., Carnes, S., & Carnes, P. (2008, December). Screening for sexual addiction: Development and validation of the PATHOS questionnaire. American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry Annual Meeting, Boca Raton, FL.
Merlo L. J., Carnes S., Carnes P. J. Gold M. S. (2008). Hypersexuality disorders: Addiction, compulsion, or impulsive behavior? Biol Psych 63 (1S-301S), 526