Published Works

The broad topic of sex—encompassing subjects as varied as sexuality, sexual and gender identity, abortion, and such crimes as sexual assault—is one of the most controversial in American society today. This two-volume encyclopedic set provides readers with more than 450 entries on the subject, offering a comprehensive overview of major sexuality issues in American and global culture.

Doug is featured in the section on Out of Control Sexual Behavior.

The authors of this chapter offer a comprehensive review of the growing and often contentious literature regarding etiology and treatment and ultimately recommend a non-pathology-based paradigm for assessment and intervention of OCSB. In this chapter they detail an assessment approach that allows for the design of “individualized, ethical, and effective treatment strategies.” 

Doug Braun-Harvey highlights how current sex therapy and supervision literature has not conceptualized sex therapy group supervision or differentiated sex therapy supervision in a group setting from existing methods for individual sex therapy supervision. He proposes a conceptual model for Sex Therapy Group Supervision (STGS) that integrates client sexuality and group process within sex therapy supervision groups. Click the link to learn more and/or purchase.

Doug Braun-Harvey and Michael Vigorito’s chapter “Out of Control Sexual Behaviour: A Sexual Health Problem overviews their sexual health alternative discourse that challenges the concept of sexual addiction.   The chapter discusses their adaption of a dual process model of human behavior to propose a transtheoretical treatment pathway within a client centered therapy process.  Click to read more.