| Description |
1 online resource (130 p.) |
| Series |
The Library of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Series |
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The Library of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1 Conceiving -- Respecting an enduring intervention -- Integrating approaches -- Understanding the power of sensate focus -- Advancing knowledge about sex -- Acknowledging the limitations of sex therapy -- Recognising sensate focus as one element of sex therapy -- Eschewing the notion of a panacea -- Focusing on process -- Clarifying terms used in this book -- Using terms interchangeably -- Using gendered pronouns -- References -- 2 Splitting |
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Separating mind, body and relationship -- Losing sex in psychoanalysis -- Reconciling Freud and couple therapy -- Medicalising sex -- Conceiving psychodynamic couple psychotherapy -- Counselling wartime couples and families -- Understanding the couple relationship: fundamental concepts -- Rethinking projective identification as a couple strategy -- Understanding the paranoid-schizoid and depressive constellations -- Identifying couple transference and countertransference -- Theorising about sex -- Separating sex and attachment -- Challenging the profession |
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Reviewing successful integrated approaches -- Reading Scharff and Savege Scharff -- Reading Caruso -- Reading Green and Seymour -- Summarising the context -- References -- 3 Sensing -- Conceiving the tactile programme as technique -- Clarifying the concept of sensate focus -- Starting phase 1 and moving to phase 2 -- Correcting the confusion over goals and implementation -- Confirming the rationale and techniques underpinning the first phase -- Comparing the original setting and the current therapeutic frame -- Broadening the original patient population -- Reviewing Hawton's classical guidelines |
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Noting Weeks, Gambescia and Hertlein's systemic approach -- Understanding touch as a gateway to the embodied unconscious -- Theorising the body as a repository of unconscious experience -- Using touch to conceptualise unconscious embodied memories -- Exploring the neurobiology of touching and human attachments -- Appendix 1 -- Preface -- Couple caressing exercises (sensate focus) -- ground rules and guidelines for psychotherapists -- Phase 1 -- Phase 2 -- References -- 4 Embodying -- Reflecting on the emotional impact of sensate focus -- Creating a place of safety: the holding environment |
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Accessing anxieties about sexuality -- Thinking about sexual anxiety and the capacity to be in the moment -- Helping couples develop -- Repairing shame -- Encouraging talk about sex -- Making connection and reconnection possible -- Linking sensuality to sexuality in relationships -- Incorporating a triangular perspective -- Acknowledging Winnicott's strengths -- Modelling the third position -- Encouraging partners' flexible interdependence -- References -- 5 Asserting -- Recognising conflict between aggression and sexual desire -- Enabling positive aggression |
| Summary |
This book explores both psychoanalytic and psychosexual perspectives of sensate focus, a programme of touching exercises for couples with sexual problems, and in so doing provides an original, integrated model for understanding the conscious and unconscious impact of this tactile intervention on couples in treatment |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Promoting psychological separateness |
| Subject |
Sex (Psychology)
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Sex therapy.
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Couples therapy.
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Couples therapy.
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Sex (Psychology)
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Sex therapy.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
100098950X |
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9781000989502 |
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