Psychotherapy An Erotic Relationship

Author : David Mann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000510468
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psychotherapy: An Erotic Relationship written by David Mann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychotherapy: An Erotic Relationship challenges the traditional belief that transference and countertransference are merely forms of resistance that 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 and lively clinical examples with theoretical insights and new research on infants, David Mann suggests that the development of the erotic derives from interactions between the parent and child and is seldom absent from the therapist-patient relationship. However, while the erotic always contains elements of past relationships, it also expresses hope for a different outcome in the present and future. Individual chapters explore the function of the erotic within the unconscious: erotic pre-Oedipal and Oedipal material; homoeroticism in therapy; sexual intercourse as a metaphor for psychological change; the primal scene in the transference, and the difficulties of working with perversions. The book is as relevant now as it was when originally published. This Classic Edition contains a new introduction by David Mann, summarizing his current ideas since this book was first published in 1997. It brings the therapy setting alive, offering clinicians both an accessible and deeper understanding of the interaction between erotic transference and countertransference; it also gives an explicit picture of how these aspects of therapy can be used to enhance the therapeutic process. It remains an essential resource for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and counsellors, their clients and anybody with an interest in Eros, desire, or mental health issues.

Author : Florence Rosiello
Publisher : Jason Aronson, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 1461628113
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deepening Intimacy in Psychotherapy written by Florence Rosiello and published by Jason Aronson, Incorporated. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : David Mann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134668325
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Erotic Transference and Countertransference written by David Mann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Transference and Countertransference offers ways of understanding the erotic which should prove both useful and thought-provoking.

Author : David M Schnarch
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393701029
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructing the Sexual Crucible written by David M Schnarch and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1991-03-05 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Lawrence E. Hedges
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135192456
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sex in Psychotherapy written by Lawrence E. Hedges and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-01-19 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex in Psychotherapy takes a psychodynamic approach to understanding recent technological and theoretical shifts in the field of psychotherapy. Lawrence Hedges provides an expert overview and analysis of a wide variety of new perspectives on sex, sexuality, gender, and identity; new theories about sex’s role in therapy; and new discoveries about the human brain and how it works. Therapists will value Hedges’s unique insights into the role of sexuality in therapy, which are grounded in the author’s studies of neurology, the history of sexuality, transference, resistance, and countertransference. Clinicians will also appreciate his provocative analyses of influential perspectives on sex, gender, and identity, and his lucid, concrete advice on the practice of therapeutic listening.

Author : Mardi J. Horowitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107532965
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adult Personality Growth in Psychotherapy written by Mardi J. Horowitz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes a clinician-patient relationship for the achievement of a wider range of safe emotional expression and mastery of previous traumas.

Author : Susie Orbach
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429921055
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Impossibility of Sex written by Susie Orbach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book I have struggled with certain words without a satisfactory conclusion. I am unhappy about all the words used to describe the person who visits the therapist's consulting room. Is she or he a patient? Well, sometimes yes. Certain individuals like that word because it captures for them the sense that there is something wrong, an emotional illness. Is she or he a client? Again, sometimes yes. Certain individuals like that word because it connotes a kind of consultative process. Is she or he an analysand? Certain individuals like this word because it conveys something about the process of a therapy and it has a symmetry: analyst–analysand. I myself find that all these words capture something about the therapy and the therapy process but are considerably less than perfect. In what follows I have chosen to use the words interchangeably, as well as the words psychotherapist, therapist and analyst. In the text, in the musings in italics, I have usually referred to the primary carer in the person's early life as mother. I realize that this is not always the case. There are fathers who have primary responsibility for their children from birth and there are relatives and nannies who fulfil this role. Rarely in my clinical experience of seeing adults has this role been an enterprise between two people in the way that it is becoming for some couples with children today. We have yet to see the effects of joint child-rearing on adult psychologies so I have retained the notion of the mother or mother substitute, a notion which will have to be expanded as the generations now raising children make new arrangements between them. I have also chosen for simplicity's sake to use the word 'she' throughout for the personal pronoun rather than 'she or he'.

Author : Joy Schaverien
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134883080
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desire and the Female Therapist written by Joy Schaverien and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desire and the Female Therapist is one of the first full-length explorations of erotic transference and countertransference from the point of view of the female therapist. Particular attention is given to the female therapist/male client relationship and to the effects of desire made visible in art objects in analytical forms of psychotherapy. Drawing on aesthetic and psychoanalytic theory, specifically Lacan and Jung, the book offers a significant new approach to desire in therapy. Richly illustrated, with pictures as well as clinical vignettes, this book follows on from Joy Schaverien's innovative previous work The Revealing Image. Written primarily for psychotherapists, art therapists and analysts, Desire and the Female Therapist will be essential reading for all therapists affected by erotic transference and countertransference in the course of clinical practice and all whose clients bring art works to therapy.

Author : Joy Schaverien
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000069354
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dying Patient in Psychotherapy written by Joy Schaverien and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dying Patient in Psychotherapy is a powerful account of love and death within a psychotherapeutic relationship. The narrative traces one man’s journey in psychotherapy and that of the analyst who accompanies him. The full-length description of an analysis demonstrates the developmental path of an erotic transference from its origins in infancy, through fantasies of sex and violence to mature erotic intimacy. The countertransference is considered with exceptional honesty as the analysis intensifies following the diagnosis of a life-threatening illness. A series of dreams rich in symbolic imagery traces the psychological situation as death approaches. A precursor to Schaverien’s acclaimed book Boarding School Syndrome, the single case study demonstrates the enduring impact of early boarding. This second edition also includes an updated literature review, and new material regarding training and supervision, making it a valuable resource for training institutions. The Dying Patient in Psychotherapy will be essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, counsellors, arts therapists and all professionals working with the dying. The poignant story will also engage the general reader, curious about the process of psychotherapy.

Author : Susan Baur
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Intimate Hour written by Susan Baur and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 1997 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Therapist. In fact, as she shows, feelings of love and attraction do not disappear simply because they are forbidden. Describing the famous and infamous liaisons of such figures as Carl Jung, Anton Mesmer, Otto Rank, and others, Baur offers irrefutable evidence that intimacy has played a part in therapy since the beginning and continues to barge in despite regulations to suppress it. With a plea for common sense and open-minded discussion, she makes a powerful argument.