- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: WW Norton (Feb 26 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0393333000
- ISBN-13: 978-0393333008
- Product Dimensions: 21 x 15.2 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 181 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #408,380 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This compelling story of recovery takes us through 28 days in an inpatient clinic for female sex addicts. Silverman explores the psychology of addiction on a deeply personal level, sharing her struggles with self-destructive tendencies and her desperate desire to be loved, no matter what the cost. Molested repeatedly by her father during her childhood, she realizes the connection between her sexual abuse and her desire to be loved by dangerous, inaccessible men. She finds she must come to terms with anger at her mother, who refused to recognize the sexual abuse of her daughters and intervene on their behalf. Candid, emotionally raw, often frightening, Silverman's account is never sugarcoated, and there are no happy platitudes or breezy success stories in it. It is deeply moving, however, and should inspire anyone going through a 12-step program, whether for sexual addiction or other conditions, and help addicts' friends and family members understand the journey their loved ones must travel in order to heal. Bonnie Johnston
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Review
A self-proclaimed addict looks unflinchingly at the source of her sickness and her road to recovery. -- O Magazine, Georgia Brown, May 2001
An honest, deeply chilling account of what it's like to suffer from a compulsion...look for love in...all the wrong places. -- Elle, Francine Prose, May 2001
An important literary accomplishment, one that will move anyone who reads it. -- recoveryworld.com, 7 May 2001
Silverman shows how real [sexual addiction] is, how it really works, and how she was able to overcome it. -- Deborah Tannen, author of You Just Don't Understand
Sue William Silverman shines a bold light on sexual addiction in her riveting memoir. -- Molly Peacock, author of Paradise, Piece by Piece --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
An honest, deeply chilling account of what it's like to suffer from a compulsion...look for love in...all the wrong places. -- Elle, Francine Prose, May 2001
An important literary accomplishment, one that will move anyone who reads it. -- recoveryworld.com, 7 May 2001
Silverman shows how real [sexual addiction] is, how it really works, and how she was able to overcome it. -- Deborah Tannen, author of You Just Don't Understand
Sue William Silverman shines a bold light on sexual addiction in her riveting memoir. -- Molly Peacock, author of Paradise, Piece by Piece --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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EVERY THURSDAY AT NOON I have sex with Rick in room #213 of the Rainbow Motel. Read the first page
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EVERY THURSDAY AT NOON I have sex with Rick in room #213 of the Rainbow Motel. Read the first page
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Good Book,
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This review is from: Love Sick: One Woman's Journey Through Sexual Addiction (Hardcover)
This book was helpful to me in understanding my wife, who is a sex addict. It was insightful to read the words of the author who suffers from the same compulsion and how it has governed her life.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Silverman's writing takes you with her.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Love Sick: One Woman's Journey Through Sexual Addiction (Hardcover)
When I picked up this book, it was because I was curious about how something as common and ordinary as sex could be an addiciton. I assumed that only perverts and creepy old men were "sex addicts". Silverman brought her recovery as a female sex addict into focus in a way that can only be described as deeply intimate. I felt myself right by her side during each of the 28 days of her treatment (and chapters), crying when she was writing about her "addictwoman," her lonliness, and her search for "family." Her writing allows for a deep sense of understanding and familiarity with the part of her that has controlled her life. For anyone woman has ever even joked about being "addicted" to love, men, relationships or sex, this book will certainly move you.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Terrible,
By R.B (Brooklyn, New York United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Love Sick: One Woman's Journey Through Sexual Addiction (Hardcover)
I did not like this book.The author talks about her sexual adiction.And how she went from one man to another.There's alsosome talk about her relationship with her husband Andrew.The book is both boring and slow pace.Also she included a page were here and her friends make up ryhmes about Jeffery Dahmer's victims.She should have thought about the family's of these people.
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