Promoting educational, classification, treatment, and policy initiatives

Mateusz Gola; Marc N Potenza

doi:10.1556/2006.7.2018.51

Promoting educational, classification, treatment, and policy initiatives

J Behav Addict. 2018 Jun 1;7(2):208-210. doi: 10.1556/2006.7.2018.51. Epub 2018 Jun 13.

Authors

Mateusz Gola^{1

2}, Marc N Potenza^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ 1 Clinical Neuroscience Laboratory, Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences , Warsaw, Poland.
² 2 Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience, Institute for Neural Computations, University of California San Diego , San Diego, CA, USA.
³ 3 Departments of Psychiatry and Neurobiology, Child Study Center and CASAColumbia, Yale School of Medicine , New Haven, CT, USA.
⁴ 4 Connecticut Mental Health Center , New Haven, CT, USA.

Abstract

The letter by Kraus et al. (2018) published recently in World Psychiatry presents diagnostic criteria for compulsive sexual behaviors (CSBs). Here, we discuss the potential impact of including CSB disorder in ICD-11 for four areas: educational efforts related to CSB (for both clinicians and patients), investigation of underlying mechanisms and subtypes, development of personalized treatment frameworks, and answering socially important questions and advancing important prevention efforts and effective policies. Each of these four areas has their own challenges that should be addressed, and we briefly describe and discuss them. We hope that this information will help continue a dialog and provide a framework for moving forward in this area.

Keywords: ICD-11; compulsive sexual behavior; hypersexual disorder; problematic pornography use; sex addiction.

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Comment

Grants and funding

Funding sources: This commentary was supported by the Polish National Science Centre grant for MG (project number: 2014/15/B/HS6/03792). Dr. MNP’s involvement was supported by the National Center for Responsible Gaming Center of Excellence in Gambling Research grant. The content of the manuscript reflects the views of the authors and not necessarily the funding agencies. The funding agencies did not have input into the content of the manuscript.