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RELATE (originally the National Marriage Guidance Council) is probably the largest and most successful service of its kind in the world. For over 50 years, helping many hundreds of thousands of couples and individuals, it has developed an approach to couple counselling that is based on acknowledgment of the uniqueness of individual clients and their relationships, a respect for their autonomy and cultural differences, and a commitment to counselling with empathy, genuineness and warmth. The authors of this book are excellently qualified to provide this unique account of the RELATE Approach in action: both were trained by RELATE, both have very substantial counselling experience, and both have supervised the work of other RELATE counsellors for several years. The ever-changing characteristics of relationships and family life are fully recognised in the RELATE Approach, which helps clients to find their solutions to difficulties of family life, transitions, separation, divorce, sexuality, gender and identity, by helping them to find meanings in the patterns of their relationships, and to make sense of emotions, thoughts and actions in themselves and their partner. This book is designed to enrich and stimulate the work of counsellors working within a wide range of counselling models and traditions. This is not a prescriptive manual but rather an informed guide to the RELATE Approach, which includes many illustrative examples and (invented) case studies. The RELATE Approach still depends upon the counsellor’s repertoire of counselling skills, but offers a three-stage counselling model (exploration, understanding, action) made operational within the format of brief, time-limited therapy. "The counsellors with RELATE and its predecessor, the Marriage Guidance movement, were the founders of counselling as we know it today. The approaches to counselling which they have developed have wide application. Butler and Joyce write very well and I found this book clear and full of good ideas for clinical practice. I can confidently recommend the book to all who care for couples in relationships." C. Murray Parkes OBE, MD, FRCPsych "A useful introduction to RELATE’s three-stage model of couple counselling and some of the concepts on which it is based." Christopher Clulow, Director of the Tavistock Marital Studies Institute
A comprehensive and thoroughly up-to-date examination of the most important topics in human sexuality. Psychological Perspectives on Human Sexuality offers a comprehensive and much-needed empirical examination of human sexuality. It is the first book in the field to speak to the needs of both the social scientist and the mental health professional. This important work also provides a complete scientific survey of the latest research along with guidance for its application to clinical practice. Researchers, clinicians, and students alike will value this collection of critical reviews covering a broad range of contemporary scientific inquiry into human sexuality. The book encapsulates the state of the art in research in such new subjects as genital surgery on children and Internet sex, as well as the most current approaches to such traditional topics as sexual orientation and gender/transgender issues. You’ll also find in-depth coverage of such topics as: - Male and Female Sexuality
- Sexual Fantasy and Erotica/Pornography
- Disabled Sexual Partners
- Older Adult Sexuality
- HIV/AIDS and Sexuality
- Paraphilias
- The Aftermath of Child Sexual Abuse
- Rape and Sexual Aggression
- Therapists’ Sexual Misconduct
Women are in a bind. In the name of consent and empowerment, they
must proclaim their desires clearly and confidently. Yet sex
researchers suggest that women's desire is often slow to emerge.
And men are keen to insist that they know what women-and their
bodies-want. Meanwhile, sexual violence abounds. How can women, in
this environment, possibly know what they want? And why do we
expect them to? In this elegant, searching book-spanning science
and popular culture; pornography and literature; debates on Me-Too,
consent and feminism-Katherine Angel challenges our assumptions
about women's desire. Why, she asks, should they be expected to
know their desires? And how do we take sexual violence seriously,
when not knowing what we want is key to both eroticism and
personhood? In today's crucial moment of renewed attention to
violence and power, Angel urges that we remake our thinking about
sex, pleasure, and autonomy without any illusions about perfect
self-knowledge. Only then will we fulfil Michel Foucault's teasing
promise, in 1976, that 'tomorrow sex will be good again'
This study argues that modern fiction, from Kate Chopin and
Virginia Woolf to William Faulkner and Doris Lessing, surges with
libidinal currents. The most powerful of these fictions are not
merely about sex; rather, they attempt to incorporate the workings
of eros into their narrative forms. In doing so, these modern
fictions of sexuality create a politics and poetics of the perverse
with the power to transform how we think about and read modernism.
Challenging overarching theories of the novel by mapping the
historical contexts that have influenced modern experimental
narratives, Joseph Allen Boone constructs a model for interpreting
sexuality that reaches from Freud's theory of the libidinal
instincts to Foucault's theory of sexual discourse. A study of the
links between literary modernity and the psychology of sex, this
text is a survey of modernist fiction, gay studies/queer theory,
feminist criticism, and studies in sexuality and gender.
Psychological approaches to sexual health have arisen independently
in a variety of different contexts. Psychology of Sexual Health is
the first book to draw together the knowledge base and expertise of
clinicians and researchers from all disciplines in the
psychological management of sexual health. The authors have
presented advances in theory and practice in a practical way that
will be accessible for all disciplines.
There have been rapid developments in the psychological
management of sexually transmitted diseases, particularly HIV and
AIDS. A significant proportion of those attending genitourinary
clinics do not have a disease or infection, but rather are seeking
help with sexual health issues relating to behaviour, prior sexual
experiences and relationships. Sexual health problems are being
increasingly raised by patients across many other health
specialties. Hence an increasing number of practitioners are
needing to understand the psychological issues underlying sexual
health.
With contributions from experts around the world, this book
addresses a wide range of issues including sexually transmitted
diseases, sexual abuse, rape, abortion and genetic counselling.
Critics and defenders alike connect today's widespread anxieties
about sexuality and culture to the political activism of the 1960s
and the counterculture's preoccupation with the individual pursuit
of pleasure/ In contrast, the essays in Swindling Single attribute
the new sexual mores of that era not to its political upheavals but
to a confluence of social, cultural, and economic factors that
encouraged personal gratification and altered traditionally defined
gender roles.
Contributors analyze a broad range of topics: the
commercialization of avant-garde and exploitation films; new
visions of female sexuality in That Girl and The Avengers; the
social context of such cultural icons as Hugh Hefner and Charles
Manson; the intersection of race and sexuality in Eldridge
Cleaver's Soul oil Ice; and depictions of sexual pleasure in
pornography and scientific films.
This book offers a collection of original contributions to the
literature on sexual crime, religion and spirituality. Does
religion help people desist from sexual crime? Can it form the
basis of interventions to rehabilitate people? Or does it provide
justification and opportunity for committing it? What do the
perpetrators say about their faith? What about the victims and
survivors of sexual crime? The book asks and answers these
questions and more in a unique collection of chapters - from
academics, chaplains and prisoners. The book begins with an
exploration of the role, history and development of chaplaincy in
the prison system over the years, before providing a more personal
look through the eyes of the Lead Chaplain at Rampton High Secure
hospital in the UK. Subsequent chapters weave together theories of
desistance from sexual crime, and analyses of perpetrators'
accounts of their offending are also offered, alongside firsthand
accounts of prisoners from a range of religions. The book concludes
with a thoughtful journey through the book by the Lead Chaplain at
HMP Stafford, UK. It will provide fresh insights for students and
scholars of psychology, criminology, theology and social work, as
well as for practitioners, chaplains, and readers with an interest
in learning about sexual crime, religion and spirituality.
This is the only book that systematically examines transgender sex
work in the United States and globally. Bringing together
perspectives from a rich range of disciplines and experiences, it
is an invaluable resource on issues related to commercial sex in
the transgender community and in the lives of trans sex workers,
including mental health, substance use, relationship dynamics,
encounters with the criminal justice system, and opportunities and
challenges in the realm of public health. The volume covers trans
sex workers' interactions with health, social service, and
mental-health agencies, featuring more than forty contributors from
across the globe. Synthesizing introductions by the editor help
organize and put into context a vast and scattered research and
empirical literature. The book is essential for researchers, health
practitioners, and policy analysts in the areas of sex-work
research, HIV/AIDS, and LGBTQ/gender studies.
Sex, for the entirety of human history, has never been about
reproduction. Statistically speaking, only one out of every one
thousand sexual acts between a man and a woman will result in a
pregnancy. And, as we know, sex does not solely take place just
between men and women. So: what is sex for? In this wide-ranging
and powerful new history of sex, Dr Fern Riddell will uncover the
sexual lives of our ancestors and show that, just like us, they
were as preoccupied with sexual identities, masturbation, foreplay,
sex and deviance; facing it with the same confusion, joy and
accidental hilarity that we do today. By looking at how history has
dealt with different parts of our sexual experience, we're taken on
an illuminating and entertaining journey about why we have sex -
and what that means today.
This collection is the first to be devoted entirely to medieval
sexuality informed by current theories of sexuality and gender. It
brings together essays from various disciplinary perspectives to
consider how the Middle Ages defined, regulated, and represented
sexual practices and desires.
Always considering sexuality in relation to gender, the gender,
the body, and indentity, the essays explore medieval sexuality as a
historical construction produced by and embedded in the cultures
and institutions of that period. Topics include the medieval
understanding of sodomy, the historical construction of
heterosexuality, and the intersections of sexuality with race,
gender, and religion.
This information-rich volume expands current knowledge about
sexually violent predators and critiques SVP laws with the goal of
fostering improvements in clinical practice and public policy. It
offers a finely detailed evidence base on this problematic class of
offenders, including the complex interactions of biophysiological
and environmental factors that contribute to criminal sexual
behavior. Chapters discuss a wide range of assessment issues and
instruments central to SVP evaluation, and the possibilities for
developing interventions that address individual motivations and
behaviors to reduce the risk of reoffending. And throughout,
careful attention is paid to ongoing legal, ethical, and logical
concerns regarding sexually violent offenders, their treatment and
confinement, and their post-confinement placement. Among the topics
covered: * Civil commitment of sex offenders. * The physiological
basis of problematic sexual interests and behaviors. * Sexually
violent predator evaluations: problems and proposals. * Cultural
considerations in the assessment of sexually violent predators. *
Management of sex offenders in community settings. * Effective use
of an expert in sexually violent predator commitment hearings.
Offering numerous issues for discussion and debate with
considerable implications for clinical practice, policy, and the
judicial system, Sexually Violent Predators will interest and
enlighten forensic psychologists and psychiatrists as well as
social workers, policy-makers, and legal professionals.
How can we currently understand sexual dysfunction? How can
psychodynamic theories contribute to an understanding of sexual
difficulties? How can we treat sexual problems
psychodynamically?;Counsellors and therapists can be hesitant about
addressing the sexual problems of their clients from any
perspective and sometimes lack the confidence to tackle the issues
as they arise. This is the first book to describe comprehensively a
specifically psychodynamic approach to sexual dysfunction. It
reviews the range and nature of sexual difficulties, and evaluates
the relevance of psychodynamic theory and interventions to the
understanding, assessment and treatment of sexual problems with
individuals and couples. It is illustrated throughout with helpful
case study material. It shows how physical and cultural
understandings of sexuality and sexual difficulty need to be an
integrated part of work wih clients "Psychodynamic Approaches to
Sexual Problems" is a useful book for all trainee and practising
counsellors and therapists working within a psychodynamic or
integrated framework.
The concept of sex addiction took hold in the 1980s as a product of
cultural anxiety. Yet, despite being essentially mythical, sex
addiction has to be taken seriously as a phenomenon. Its success as
a purported malady lay with its medicalization, both as a self-help
movement in terms of self-diagnosis, and as a rapidly growing
industry of therapists treating the new disease. The media played a
role in its history, first with TV, the tabloids and the case
histories of claimed celebrity victims all helping to popularize
the concept, and then with the impact of the Internet. This book is
a critical history of an archetypically modern sexual syndrome.
Reay, Attwood and Gooder argue that this strange history of social
opportunism, diagnostic amorphism, therapeutic self-interest and
popular cultural endorsement is marked by an essential social
conservatism: sex addiction has become a convenient term to
describe disapproved sex. It is a label without explanatory force.
This book will be essential reading for those interested in
sexuality studies, contemporary history, psychology, psychiatry,
sociology, media studies and studies of the Internet. It will also
be of interest to doctors and therapists currently working in this
and related fields.
This book argues that structuralism makes itself useful when it
engages with the non-Oedipal logics of femininity and psychosis.
Building from the psychoanalytic belief that norms repress
unconscious desire while structures open onto the creative
resources of the symbolic, Sex for Structuralists looks to key
texts in myth, trauma, and unconscious fantasy by Sigmund Freud,
Jacques Lacan, and Claude Levi-Strauss. It also examines innovative
writings by contemporary Lacanian thinkers in order to discover
what becomes of structuralism when the ground upon which it
ostensibly stands (namely, that of the zero symbol or the incest
prohibition) drops out from under it.
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