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The revised edition of this award-winning book offers thirty-three
Neuro Updates, which provide evidence-based data to help you
recognize and explain the deeply transformational nature of the
work. Expanding the Practice of Sex Therapy looks beyond behavioral
treatments, pharmaceutical interventions, and performance goals to
a comprehensive picture of what your clients want and need when
they enter sex therapy, and offers creative ways to engage your
clients in their own therapeutic process, whether or not you are
trained as a sex therapist. Central to Gina Ogden's approach is her
Four-Dimensional Wheel of Sexual Experience, an innovative template
that recognizes the full range of sexual issues: physical,
emotional, mental, and spiritual. The text is organized into five
practice-oriented sections that introduce the 4-D Wheel; show you
how you can use it with individuals, couples, and groups; and
encourage you to explore it on your own.
The aftermath of Algeria's revolutionary war for independence
coincided with the sexual revolution in France, and in this book
Todd Shepard argues that these two movements are inextricably
linked. Sex, France, and Arab Men is a history of how and why-from
the upheavals of French Algeria in 1962 through the 1970s-highly
sexualized claims about Arabs were omnipresent in important public
French discussions, both those that dealt with sex and those that
spoke of Arabs. Shepard explores how the so-called sexual
revolution took shape in a France profoundly influenced by the
ongoing effects of the Algerian revolution. Shepard's analysis of
both events alongside one another provides a frame that renders
visible the ways that the fight for sexual liberation, usually
explained as an American and European invention, developed out of
the worldwide anticolonial movement of the mid-twentieth century.
What is incest? Is it universally prohibited? Does this prohibition
concern only "biological" kinships or does it extend to various
"social" kinships, such as those that are formed today in so-called
blended families but which also exist in many other societies? This
prohibition plays a fundamental role in the functioning of the
multiple kinship systems studied throughout the world. But where
does it come from? Can we think, with Claude Lévi-Strauss, that
the prohibition of incest alone marks the passage from nature to
culture? And how can we understand, then, the persistent tension
between the proclaimed, institutionalized prohibition and the
incestuous practice which, everywhere, remains? World-renowned
anthropologist Maurice Godelier highlights an essential fact, the
spontaneously asocial and undifferentiated character of human
sexuality and the need for a social regulation of this spontaneity.
It thus brings to light the main teachings of anthropology on the
question of incest, a major social fact of burning relevance today.
Through the research on which this book reports, we have been given
the unique opportunity to explore the complex nature of two of the
most important issues in the lives of adults: identity and
intimacy. It is with deep gratitude that we give credit to the 80
individuals in our sample who allowed us to explore these processes
in their lives. Our purpose in writing this book was, in some ways,
a modest one. Both of us believed that research on the Eriksonian
concept of intimacy was deficient in that it was limited to the
reports of individuals about them selves. We maintained that this
kind of research could provide only a narrow, and probably biased,
view of the intimacy development of individ uals. By obtaining
complementary responses to the intimacy interview from both
partners in a marital relationship, we hope to pave a new path that
fu ture researchers in this area will follow. Beyond this
methodological advance, we intended that this book's theoretical
focus could put a new perspective on the well-trodden path of
research on marriage. This more ambitious gaal is one that we faced
with some trepidation. The literature on marital adjustment and
satisfaction is vast and potentially overwhelming."
This text offers a broad range of topics relating to the philosophy
of sexuality. These include: morality; adultery; sex and gender
differences; romantic love; gender-based speech; marriage; family
and parenthood; feminism; and others.
This book examines the role of the Oedipus complex in the psyche
and relates it to urgent issues of social life, historical and
current. It discusses the theory of sexual phallic monism and its
most important consequences, and some essential points of Freud's
work on female sexuality.
An in-depth study of recent developments in the field of sex
therapy presents detailed descriptions of the diverse techniques
used to enhance sexual experiences and to treat sexual problems.
A bestselling author of books on women's psychology explores the
journey toward complete womanhood--"conscious femininity". Woodman
(Addiction to Perfection) demonstrates the striving of contemporary
women for inner balance and wholeness in a patriarchal society that
resists the process. 6 halftones.
This book provides a feminist psychological analysis of
contemporary resistance to sexual harassment in and around #MeToo.
It explores how women's assumed empowerment in postfeminist and
neoliberal feminist discourses has shaped understandings of sexual
harassment and social responses to it. This exploration is grounded
in the trajectories of feminist activism and psychological theory
about sexual harassment. Lazard addresses the gendered binary of
female victims and male perpetrators in contemporary victim
politics and the treatment of perpetrators within postfeminist and
neoliberal frames. In doing so, the author unpacks the cultural
conditions which support or deny who gets to speak and be heard in
#MeToo politics. This book will be a valuable resource not only for
scholars and students from within the psychological sciences and
gender studies, but for the wider social sciences and anyone
interested in the psychological grounding of the #MeToo movement.
Sex and pornography addiction are growing problems that devastate
the lives of partners as well as sufferers. Sex Addiction: The
Partner's Perspective has been written to help partners and those
who care about them to survive the shock of discovering their
partner is a sex addict and to help them make decisions about the
future of their relationships and their lives. First and foremost,
it is a practical book, full of facts, and self help exercises to
give partners a much needed sense of stability and control. Like
its sister book, Understanding and Treating Sex Addiction, it
includes case examples and survey results revealing the reality of
life for partners of sex addicts. Sex Addiction: The Partner's
Perspective is divided into three parts. Part I explores the myths
surrounding sex addiction and provides up to date information about
what sex addiction is and what causes it before moving on to
explain why the discovery hurts partners so much. Part II is about
partners' needs and includes self-help exercises and strategies to
help partners regain stability, rebuild self-esteem and consider
their future. The controversial topic of co-dependency is also
explored with guidance on how to identify it, avoid it and overcome
it. Part III focuses on the couple relationship starting with the
difficult decision of whether to stay or leave. Whatever the
decision, partners will then find help and support for rebuilding
trust and reclaiming their sexuality. This book has been written to
help partners not only survive, but to grow stronger and move on
with their lives - whether alone, or in their relationship. Readers
will find revealing statistics and real life stories shared by
partners who kindly took part in the first UK survey of sex
addiction partners. This book will this book be a valuable guide
for partners, but also for the therapists who seek to support them
on their journey of recovery.
This authoritative text for those training in Sexual Medicine now
returns in a new edition that builds on what clinicians found most
useful in the previous editions - physical and psychological
background knowledge and all relevant treatments, combined with
psychological therapies, principles, and case examples applied to
common problems.
In the long and passionate debate within psychoanalysis over the
theory of female sexuality, which has spanned more than a century
and reached no definitive conclusion, a pattern of non-acceptance
of ideas, their disappearance and then re-emergence later is a
continually repeating one. The Anatomy of the Clitoris shows how
this happens, using a comprehensive guide to the literature. The
time is right culturally to explore this further usingclinical
material as illustration. The central aim of this book is to
introduce recent innovative redrawing of female anatomy appearing
in the scientific literature to psychoanalysis.
This accessible book offers effective protocol for engaging in
better sexual decision-making in clinical practice. It demonstrates
that damaging sexual behaviors are often the result of a process in
which a clinician progresses towards the crossing of a
client-clinician boundary. Sexual Attraction in Therapy explores
state-of-the art research from a multitude of related fields and
includes sage advice on how to recognize personal risk factors,
manage arousal, identify counterproductive sexual behaviors, and
use self-talk to exit sexual situations. Sexual boundary violations
usually follow a much longer insidious process and the book
carefully discusses and highlights the warning signs for
clinicians, which can develop into sexual predicaments affecting
their lives and those of their clients, their workplaces and
colleagues, and the reputation of the mental health field. Chapters
provide essential guidance so that therapists can monitor progress
along the 'sexual decision cycle' and, importantly, create
organizations far more resistant to poor sexual decision-making.
This text is an excellent teaching guide for clinicians and
treatment professionals who seek therapeutic growth for both
clients and themselves. Clinicians will be able to improve their
decision-making and prevent themselves from engaging in damaging
sexual behaviors, and organizations can redesign their approach to
include preventative practices.
The erotic sentiments described in the Hindu love classic the Kama
Sutraconstitute the most famous work on sex ever created. Written
almost 2,000 years ago, the Kama Sutra deals with all aspects of
sexual life, including the principles and techniques of sexual
pleasure and how to best achieve ecstatic expression of life's
beauty. In this complete and illustrated guide Lance Dane
accompanies the Kama Sutratext with 269 illustrations and great
works of art that encompass coins, palm leaf manuscripts,
sculptures, ancient toys, jewelry, architecture, ivory combs, birch
bark, cloth, paintings, frescoes, and scrolls. Gathered from
museums and private collections around the world-as well as the
author's own collection of over 300,000 photographs-these rare
images clearly illustrate all 64 sexual positions and the erotic
instructions set forth in the Kama Sutra. The result is a dazzling
and sensuous reading experience through which the teachings of the
Kama Sutraspring to life.
Systemic Sex Therapy, third edition integrates couple and sex
therapy to inform the treatment of sexual problems and to give
beginning clinicians the abilities and confidence they need to
produce change in their patients' lives. Grounded in the
Intersystem Approach, the book considers the biology, psychology,
couple dyad, family-of-origin, and larger contextual factors of any
sexual disorder or issue. Each chapter examines the definition and
description of a sexual disorder or issue, its etiology,
assessment, treatment, research, and future directions. This
thoroughly revised edition presents 18 updated chapters consistent
with the DSM-5 and features new content on sexuality and aging,
infidelity, sexual interest/arousal disorder, disability, and
kink/BDSM. Experts in the field discuss all the major sexual
dysfunctions along with new chapters on culture, technology, and
their interplay with sexual functioning. An essential text in the
field, Systemic Sex Therapy sets out a conceptual framework for
graduate students in couple and family therapy programs looking to
develop a comprehensive, integrative understanding of sexual
issues.
This book bridges the gap between the counsellor and the specialist
sex therapist, by providing answers to questions raised by patients
or clients about sex, gender and sexuality. It covers physiological
information about genitalia, variations on sexuality, the
differences between men and women in genital sexual arousal and
sexual dysfunctions, an understanding of developmental sexuality
and information as to whether the sex discussed is normal or
pathological. By having a clearer understanding of usual sexual
practices, counsellors can be readily equipped to reassure their
clients, or refer to an appropriate person for specialist referral.
Topics covered include physiological difficulties like erectile
problems, ejaculatory difficulties, vaginismus and dyspareunia, and
loss of sexual desire; gender problems including cross-dressing,
transsexualism and intersex; and psychological problems include
sexual addiction, fetishism and unusual sexual practices. These are
discussed in the context of individual clients and in couple
dynamics, and provide a comprehensive reference for the
non-specialist mental health professional.
Gender as Soft Assembly weaves together insights from different
disciplinary domains to open up new vistas of clinical
understanding of what it means to inhabit, to perform, and to be,
gendered. Opposing the traditional notion of development as the
linear unfolding of predictable stages, Adrienne Harris argues that
children become gendered in multiply configured contexts. And she
proffers new developmental models to capture the fluid,
constructed, and creative experiences of becoming and being
gendered. According to Harris, these models, and the images to
which they give rise, articulate not only with contemporary
relational psychoanalysis but also with recent research into the
origins of mentalization and symbolization. In urging us to think
of gender as co-constructed in a variety of relational contexts,
Harris enlarges her psychoanalytic sensibility with the insights of
attachment theory, linguistics, queer theory, and feminist
criticism. Nor is she inattentive to the impact of history and
culture on gender meanings. Special consideration is given to chaos
theory, which Harris positions at the cutting edge of developmental
psychology and uses to generate new perspectives and new images for
comprehending and working clinically with gender.
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