Five cases of sexual addiction under Short-term Psychodynamic Group Psychotherapy

Abstract

, and because of this, psychodynamic psychotherapy is a good choice of treatment. We aim to report the evolution of five sex addicts, who underwent short-term psychodynamic group psychotherapy (STPGP). Our specific goal is investigate the effect of the STPGP on SC.The five patients also had impulse control disorder or drug/alcohol dependence, and were all Brazilian men over 18 years of the Institute of Psychiatry at Clinicas’ Hospital of University of Sao Paulo Medical School (HC-FMUSP). All of them met the Goodman’s criteria for sex addiction