Psychotherapy, an Erotic Relationship

Author: David Mann
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415148528
Category : Countertransference (Psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
Psychotherapy: An Erotic Relationship offers practitioners a deeper understanding of the interaction between transference and countertrans- ference and shows how these problematic aspects of therapy can enhance the therapeutic process.

Psychotherapy: An Erotic Relationship

Author: David Mann
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134752393
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 221

Book Description
Psychotherapy: An Erotic Relationship challenges the traditional belief that transference and countertransference are merely forms of resistance which jeopardize the therapeutic process. David Mann shows how the erotic feelings and fantasies experienced by clients and therapists can be used to bring about a positive transformation. Combining extensive clinical material with theoretical insights and new research on infants, the author traces erotic development back to the parent-child relationship, drawing parallels between this relationship and the therapist/client dyad. Individual chapters explore the function of the erotic within the unconscious, pre-Oedipal and Oedipal material, homoeroticism in therapy, sexual intercourse as a metaphor for psychological change, the primal scene and the difficulties of working with perversions.

Psychotherapy, an Erotic Relationship

Author: David Mann
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415148510
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 221

Deepening Intimacy in Psychotherapy

Author: Florence Rosiello
Publisher: Jason Aronson, Incorporated
ISBN: 1461628113
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 261

Book Description
In this provocative volume, Dr. Florence W. Rosiello addresses erotic dynamics in the treatment relationship within the context of a two-person therapy, emphasizing the necessity of mutuality and emotional reciprocity between patient and therapist. With rich clinical illustrations, she demonstrates how the intimacy created by working within the sexual dimension of the therapeutic relationship may present opportunities for insight and growth that could easily be missed if one seeks to avoid these highly charged issues. Focusing on those patients who are predisposed to relating to others in a sexualized manner, Dr. Rosiello has discovered that mutual exploration of both the therapist's and the patient's subjective experience offers a valuable and effective means of enhancing the treatment.

Erotic Transference and Countertransference

Author: David Mann
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134668325
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 171

Book Description
Erotic Transference and Countertransference brings together, for the first time, contemporary views on how psychotherapists and analysts work with and think about the erotic in therapeutic practice. Representing a broad spectrum of psychoanalytic perspectives, including object relations, Kleinian, Jungian and Lacanian thought, the contributors highlight similarities and differences in their approaches to the erotic in transference and countertransference, ranging from love and sexual desire to perverse and psychotic manifestations. Erotic Transferenceand Countertransference offers ways of understanding the erotic which should prove both useful and thought-provoking.

Sex in Psychotherapy

Author: Lawrence E. Hedges
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135192456
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 235

Book Description
provides an expert summary of three decades’ worth of research into perspectives on sexuality, identity, and gender

Sexual Boundary Violations

Author: Andrea Celenza
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0765708531
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
This book addresses training, supervisory, and therapeutic issues related to the consequences from sexual boundary violations among mental health professionals and clergy. These problems are discussed on theoretical and practical levels aimed at understanding, recovery, rehabi...

Constructing the Sexual Crucible

Author: David M Schnarch
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393701029
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 664

Book Description
This book challenges the fundamental paradigms in sexual-marital therapies, and provides a fresh look at the nature of intimacy and the diverse barriers to eroticism in many marriages. By integrating individual, sexual and marital therapies, this study attempts to provide a fresh look at the nature of intimacy and the diverse barriers to eroticism in marriage. The author refutes the common focus on sexual technique, calling instead for an emphasis on sexual potential.

The Therapeutic Relationship

Author: Petruska Clarkson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1861563817
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 487

Book Description
This text provides coverage of the uses and abuses of the therapeutic relationship in counselling, psychology, psychotherapy and related fields. It provides a framework for integration, pluralism or deepening singularity with reference to five kinds of therapeutic relationship potentially available in every kind of counselling or psychodynamic work. The work incoporates training and supervision perspectives and examples of course design, uses in assessment and applications to group and couples as well as to organizations. Dealing with an issue of increasing complexity, the book should be of value and significance to psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, clinical and counselling psychologists and other professionals working in the field of helping human relationships such as doctors, social workers, teachers and counsellors.

Sexual Intimacy Between Therapists and Patients

Author: Kenneth Pope
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
Sexual attraction to a patient is an all but universal experience in therapy . . . and one that is an all but universally avoided topic of discussion among therapists. _Sexual Intimacy Between Therapists and Patients_ faces this complex and painful issue squarely. The authors--themselves experienced clinicians and researchers--draw together clinical studies, first-hand accounts, national surveys, legislation and case law, ethical standards, popular literature, and their own carefully gathered evidence, in order to provide all of the information currently available on patient-therapist intimacy. In this book, Pope and Bouhoutsos outline the varieties of sexual abuse and describe the "at-risk" patient as well as the "at-risk" therapist. They offer guidance on how to treat a patient who has been sexually abused by a former therapist. And they cover the broader social dimensions of the issue, including recommending changes in the education of health professionals and the role played by the legal system.