False Intimacy: Understanding the Struggle of Sexual Addiction

What it is

Harry Schaumburg's title carries his thesis: sexual addiction offers intimacy without exposure, connection without the risk of being known, and that counterfeit is precisely what prevents the real thing. He writes frankly for people whose lives or ministries have been impacted, tracing the roots of the behaviour, its effect on marriage and ministry, and what genuine change requires — which in his account is repentance and relational honesty rather than technique. Published by NavPress in the LifeChange line. It is one of the earlier serious Christian treatments of the subject and remains widely used by pastors and counselors, though its framing predates the trauma-informed models that came later. Read with his later Undefiled for the fuller version of the same argument.

What it may help with

• I'm struggling with porn or sexual sin
• I lead a church or ministry
• We're rebuilding our marriage

How to access it

Paperback and ebook (NavPress LifeChange) Purchase from a bookseller

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