title: Sexual addiction: insights from psychoanalysis and functional neuroimaging.
abstract: Sexual motivation is a fundamental behavior in human. For a long time, this behavior has been somehow ignored from psychological and neuroscientific research. In this article - reflecting the collaboration of a clinical psychologist and a neuroscientist - we show that in the current period, sexual affiliation is one of the most promising affiliation context to articulate a debate, a dialog and convergence points between psychoanalysis and neuroscience. Recent data on healthy sexual behavior and its compulsive variant are discussed under the prism of neuroscience and psychoanalysis.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Psychologie Clinique et de Psychopathologie (LPCP, EA 4056) Institut de Psychologie, Université Paris Descartes, Boulogne-Billancourt, France.
authors.forename: Vincent
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Estellon
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Neurosciences Fonctionnelles et Pathologies (LNFP, EA 4559), UFR de Médecine, Université de Picardie Jules Vernes, Amiens, France.
authors.forename: Harold
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mouras
keywords: brain; fMRI; sexual affiliation