Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction

What it is

Mark Laaser lost his ministry to sexual addiction and then spent the rest of his life building the field of Christian treatment for it, and this is the book that shaped how a generation of pastors and counselors understand the problem. He writes from both chairs — as a clinician with the research and as a man who has been the patient — and the substance is developmental: sexual addiction as something that grows out of family systems, abuse, unmet childhood need and distorted beliefs, rather than out of unusual appetite. He covers the addiction cycle, the consequences for a spouse and family, and the shape of recovery, and he does it without either minimizing sin or reducing the person to it. Published by Zondervan. If someone is going to read one book to understand what this actually is, this is still the one — and it is also the book to hand a pastor who wants to help and has no framework.

What it may help with

• I'm struggling with porn or sexual sin
• I need professional counseling
• I lead a church or ministry

How to access it

Paperback, ebook and audiobook (Zondervan) Purchase from a bookseller

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