Hachette India

Crazy for You

Kerry Cohen

For anyone who has wondered
Why does everyone else seem to be able to make romantic relationships work, and I can't?
What's wrong with me?
Why is love so hard?

Psychologist and bestselling memoirist Kerry Cohen is all too familiar with the questions she often hears from her clients-and has asked herself. Even though sex and love are some of the most universal, sought-after experiences we have, many of us lack the tools and understanding to approach them in a healthy way. Without knowing it, many people struggling with sex and love actually fall somewhere on the spectrum of sex and love addiction (SLA).

Sex and love addiction is still wildly misunderstood. It's shrouded in secrecy and shame, and many counselors lack the training to address it-leaving people who need help without resources. Yet SLA isn't a binary of you are or you aren't, rather, it's a spectrum. Kerry Cohen knows this all too well as both a therapist and someone who identifies on the SLA spectrum. Based on research and her own clinical experience, Crazy for You dives into SLA and provides an inclusive framework for understanding relationships, along with practical exercises and advice for self-assessment, discovery, and healing:Part one explains the sex and love addiction spectrum, helping you determine where you fall on it and how you got therePart two introduces strategies for breaking the spell of sex and love addiction, like behavior modifications and self-awareness techniquesPart three teaches you how to navigate healthy, safe, and fulfilling relationships

Kerry Cohen

Kerry Cohen grew up in northern New Jersey right across the George Washington Bridge from Manhattan. She has two master's degrees one in writing from the University of Oregon and one in counseling psychology from Pacific University.After publishing her first memoir Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity Cohen received thousands of messages from girls and women who felt that in telling her story she had told their own shameful unspoken story as well. Following that experience her work as a counselor has primarily concerned adolescent girls and sexuality relationship issues and addictions. Her next book on the loose" issue Dirty Little Secrets: Breaking the Silence on Teenage Girls and Promiscuity is forthcoming in September 2011.Cohen's writing has been featured in The New York Times' Modern Love" series and the Washington Post as well as numerous anthologies literary journals and periodicals. She has appeared on Dr. Phil Secret Lives of Women The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet and the BBC as well as in Marie Claire the UK's Daily Mail South African People Magazine. She currently maintains a blog for Psychology Today.