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Actor David Duchovny Left 'sex Addiction' Rehab, Monday October 6, 2008 "treatment Successfully Completed". But What Does That Mean?

A month after checking into the center. A lawyer for the Californication star said the treatment was "successfully completed."

But what does that mean exactly? In a world where sex addiction is absent from the Diagnostic and Statistical manual of Mental Disorders, the clinical bible for psychiatrists and psychologists, fans and celebrity gawkers are left wondering how Mr. Duchovny spent his time in rehab. Was one month of therapy really enough to keep his sexual urges at bay?

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Prayers for Inspiration :: Author Unknown

Acceptance
      Peacefulness

Rules for a Peaceful Life

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Mindfulness :: Mark Weiss, MD

Zooming along the highway of our lives, balancing work, children, marriage etc. can at times feel overwhelming. Our society tends to lean towards a way of living and thinking that is always doing, always on. The opportunities for finding a silent time and place devoid of goal directed activity, to just be with ourselves, can be few and far between.

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Review: Contemporary Catholic Sexuality, What is Taught and What is Practiced

author: John E. Perito, M.D.
publisher: The Crossroad Publishing Company, New York, 2003, ISBN 0-8245-1968-X
reviewer: John J. Kennedy, Ph.D., CPEB

This very interesting book by a practicing Catholic Psychiatrist treats a central concern of contemporary Catholics. Over the past decade the Church in North America has been rocked by sex scandals involving clergy.

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