Sexual Attraction in Therapy

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Sexual Attraction in Therapy presents new and original theoretical and clinical insights from multiple perspectives into working with the complex phenomenon of sexual attraction in therapy. Challenging practitioners to think about sexual attraction as a normal dynamic developing through the unique intimacy of the therapy encounter, it encourages readers to treat sexual attraction as an opportunity for deeper work, rather than as a dread. This text fills an important gap in the market by moving beyond psychoanalytic theories of transference and countertransference, and discussing views on theory, training, practice and research from relational/integrative, cognitive behavioural, acceptance and commitment, existential, phenomenological, psychoanalytic and systemic approaches. The contributors to the text - including Doris MIlwain, Michael Worrell, John Sommers-Flanagan and Martin Milton - are highly experienced psychologists and psychotherapists with international reputations as theorists on the erotic in clinical practice. Illustrated with detailed case material and strategies for managing sexual attraction, this book aims to stimulate understanding and dialogue by bringing theory and practice from a variety of perspectives together in one comprehensive volume.
Sexual Attraction in Therapy presents new findings from multiple perspectives into the complex phenomenon of sexual attraction in therapy. Detailed clinical examples and strategies from expert contributors demonstrate how therapists can engage with sexual attraction, when it arises, in positive ways that facilitate client progress and ensure appropriate professional conduct. * Challenges practitioners to think about sexual attraction as a normal dynamic developing through the unique intimacy of the therapy encounter * Presents new findings from research to enrich understanding of the lived experience of therapists and how they confront, avoid, make use of the process of sexual attraction * Provides clinical examples to highlight common challenges faced by practitioners, the strategies they use to overcome them and how they normalize the 'taboo' of sexual attraction to make positive use of it in therapy * Makes an important contribution to current literature on professional practice, an area of increasing importance as more emphasis is placed on issues of ethics, ongoing supervision and appropriate professional conduct * Expert contributors include Doris McIlwain, Michael Worrell, John Sommers-Flanagan and Martin Milton

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B = Standard Review List US 1. American Journal of Psychiatry 2. American Psychologist 3. North American Journal of Psychology. 4. J. Amer. Psychoana. Assn. 5. Contemporary Psychoanalysis. 6. Journal of Anal. Psychol. 7. Journal of Clinical Psychoanalysis. (USA). [author has been published in this journal] 8. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration (SEPI) and (APA) 9. Journal of Phenomenological Psychology (Brill) 10. Journal of Mental Health Counseling Also: PsyCritiques (3 copies) UK/ROW I published two research articles in the Counselling & Psychotherapy Research Journal (BACP). The Journal of The Society for Existential Analysis is sponsored by Regent's University and read by many of our students/trainees. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice by the British Psychological Society is recommended to all our students and is widely read. The other journals cover a range of training institutions and modalities, which captures the essence of the book. 1. Annual Review of Psychology. 2. British Journal of Psychiatry. 3. Journal of Counselling Psychology (APA). 4. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice (BPS). 5. Counselling & Psychotherapy Research (The BACP research journal published by Taylor & Francis). 6. Journal of The Society for Existential Analysis 7. The Psychotherapist. UKCP. 8. International Journal of Psychotherapy, European Association of Psychotherapy: EAP. 9. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy. (BABCP) Cambridge. 10. Psychotherapy Research. Society for Psychotherapy Research (pub. Taylor & Francis). 11. British Journal of Psychotherapy. British Association of Psychotherapists: www.bap-psychotherapy.org 12. Contemporary Psychotherapy. Minster Centre, London, UK (e-journal) 13. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice. British Psychological Society. 14. The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist (BABCP). 15. Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane. (independent journal)
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