Psychotherapy, an Erotic Relationship

Psychotherapy, an Erotic Relationship
Author: David Mann
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 1997
Genre: Countertransference (Psychology)
ISBN: 9780415148528

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.

Deepening Intimacy in Psychotherapy

Deepening Intimacy in Psychotherapy
Author: Florence Rosiello
Publisher: Jason Aronson, Incorporated
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2000-09-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1461628113

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

Erotic Transference and Countertransference
Author: David Mann
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1134668325

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.

Sexual Boundary Violations

Sexual Boundary Violations
Author: Andrea Celenza
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2011-02
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0765708531

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...

LGBTQ Clients in Therapy: Clinical Issues and Treatment Strategies

LGBTQ Clients in Therapy: Clinical Issues and Treatment Strategies
Author: Joe Kort
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 506
Release: 2018-03-20
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 132400049X

All the answers clinicians need to work effectively with LGBTQ clients. A therapist who treats LGBTQ clients often must be more than “gay friendly.” Clinical experience, scientific research, and cultural understanding are advancing rapidly, and the task of being LGBTQ informed is ever-changing in today's world. This book covers topics such as how to avoid making the common mistake of believing that "a couple is a couple," thus treating LGBTQ couples the same as their heterosexual counterparts; how to treat clients struggling in "mixed" orientation marriages and relationships (straight and LGBTQ spouses in the same couple); and how to work with all clients who have non-heteronormative sexual behaviors and practices. Perhaps most importantly, the book discusses covert cultural sexual abuse (the trauma suffered from having to suppress one's own sexual and gender identity) as well as the difficult process of coming out to family and friends. A therapist's job is to help clients and their identities through their own lens and not anyone else's—especially the therapist's. The gay affirmative principles put forward in this book will help you build a stronger relationship with your LGBTQ clients and become the go-to therapist in your area.

The Therapeutic Relationship

The Therapeutic Relationship
Author: Petruska Clarkson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 487
Release: 2003-11-07
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1861563817

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

Sexual Intimacy Between Therapists and Patients
Author: Kenneth Pope
Publisher: Praeger
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1986-09-05
Genre: Psychology
ISBN:

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.

Working with Sexual Attraction in Psychotherapy Practice and Supervision

Working with Sexual Attraction in Psychotherapy Practice and Supervision
Author: Biljana Rijn
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2020-07-29
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1000097226

Working with Sexual Attraction in Psychotherapy Practice and Supervision addresses some of the challenges associated with sexual attraction in psychotherapy practice and supervision, as well as within services, and helps therapists, supervisors, and managers to navigate them with openness and self-reflection. The book focuses on practical and applied issues, using a relational humanistic-integrative theoretical approach as a backdrop for understanding. Split into three parts, it deals with issues related to clinical practice, supervision and ethical issues. Chapters support in-depth exploration in all three arenas of practice and are completed by editors providing a reflective summary. Enriched with case examples and research written by senior relational practitioners, the book will be beneficial to therapists, supervisors, and service managers in the field of psychotherapy.

Sex Therapy with Erotically Marginalized Clients

Sex Therapy with Erotically Marginalized Clients
Author: Damon Constantinides
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2019-03-28
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317205987

Sex Therapy with Erotically Marginalized Clients: Nine Principles of Clinical Support provides a clinical guide to relational sex therapy with individuals, partnerships, polyships, and alternative family structures where one or more of the clients are erotically marginalized. This term refers to people who are at risk of being pathologized and oppressed both outside and inside the clinical setting due to their gender identities, sexual orientations, or sexual practices. The book outlines nine principles for therapeutic practice which meet the needs of erotically marginalized clients, whose forms of sexuality and desire are rarely spoken about and for whom there is a dearth of language in therapeutic contexts. Each principle concludes with a series of ‘key points’ and then followed by illustrative clinical case studies, contributed by sex therapists and clinicians who self-identify as erotically marginalized and who also work with erotically marginalized clients. The book also provides a full glossary, ‘Defining Erotically Marginalized Identities’. The authors and case contributors use a radical and affirming lens to examine erotically marginalized identities that are often neglected. The book bridges gaps between the past, present, and future in the field of sex therapy and greatly expands the diversity of experiences and identities within the field, particularly the experience of multiple oppressions. The book marks a valuable contribution not only to sex therapists but to the wider clinical and therapeutic community.