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Sexual Attraction in Therapy


Sexual Attraction in Therapy

Clinical Perspectives on Moving Beyond the Taboo - A Guide for Training and Practice
1. Aufl.

von: Maria Luca

34,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 24.12.2013
ISBN/EAN: 9781118674321
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 288

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<p><i>Sexual Attraction in Therapy</i> 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. </p> <ul> <li>Challenges practitioners to think about sexual attraction as a normal dynamic developing through the unique intimacy of the therapy encounter</li> <li>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</li> <li>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</li> <li>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</li> <li>Expert contributors include Doris McIlwain, Michael Worrell, John Sommers-Flanagan and Martin Milton</li> </ul> <p><b> </b></p> <p> </p>
<p><i>Notes on Contributors xi</i></p> <p><i>Acknowledgements xvi</i></p> <p>Editorial Introduction: An Encounter with Erotic Desire in Therapy xvii<br /> Maria Luca</p> <p><b>Part I Relational Perspectives on Sexual Attraction in Therapy 1</b></p> <p>1 ‘Hot Cognition in Sexual Attraction’: Clarifying, Using and Defusing the Dionysian in Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapies 3<br /> Michael Worrell</p> <p>2 Sexual Attraction in the Therapeutic Relationship: An Integrative Perspective 22<br /> John Nuttall</p> <p>3 Existential Psychotherapy and Sexual Attraction: Meaning and Authenticity in the Therapeutic Encounter 38<br /> Michael D. Berry</p> <p>4 Knowing but Not Showing: Achieving Reflective Encounter with Desire – A Relational Psychoanalytic Perspective 53<br /> Doris McIlwain</p> <p>5 The Role of Psychological Proximity and Sexual Feelings in Negotiating Relatedness in the Consulting Room: A Phenomenological Perspective 67<br /> Paul Smith-Pickard</p> <p>6 An Acceptance Commitment Therapy Approach to Sexual Attraction 80<br /> Richard Blonna</p> <p>7 Addressing Sexual Attraction in Supervision 97<br /> Kirsten W. Murray and John Sommers-Flanagan</p> <p>8 Sexual Attraction in Conjoint Couple Therapy 115<br /> Steven M. Harris and Tina M. Timm</p> <p>9 Bound to the Mast: Reflections on Analytic Abstinence 131<br /> Andrea Sabbadini</p> <p>10 Why Can’t We Be Lovers? The Love-Obsessed Clients Who Stalk Their Therapist 137<br /> Maria Luca and Juliet Soskice</p> <p><b>Part II Research-Informed Theoretical and Clinical Perspectives on Sexual Attraction in Therapy 151</b></p> <p>11 Skilled Handling of Sexual Attraction in Therapy: A Grounded Theory of What Makes the Difference 153<br /> Anthony Arcuri and Doris McIlwain</p> <p>12 The Self-Preservation Society: A Discourse Analysis of Male Heterosexual Therapists and Discourses of Sexual Attraction 173<br /> John Penny and Malcolm Cross</p> <p>13 An Elephant in the Room: A Grounded Theory of Experienced Psychotherapists’ Reactions and Attitudes to Sexual Attraction 193<br /> Maria Luca and Mark Boyden</p> <p>14 Therapists’ Disclosures of Their Sexual Feelings to Their Clients: The Importance of Honesty – An Interpretative Phenomenological Approach 209<br /> Anna Marshall and Martin Milton</p> <p>15 Systemic Family Therapists’ Narratives on Sexual Attraction in Their Clinical Practice: A Narrative Analysis 226<br /> Desa Markovic</p> <p><b>Epilogue 242</b></p> <p><i>Index 249</i></p>
<p><b>Maria Luca</b> is a Reader in Psychotherapy and Counselling Psychology, Senior Research Fellow, and Head of the Reflections Research Centre in the School of Psychotherapy and Counselling Psychology, Regent’s University London, UK. She has extensive clinical experience as a psychotherapist in the NHS and runs a private practice in London. She is a UKCP accredited psychotherapist, a BACP senior accredited counselling supervisor, and editor of <i>The Therapeutic Frame in the Clinical Context: Integrative Perspectives</i> (2004).</p>
<p><i>Sexual Attraction in Therapy</i> 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.</p> <p>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.</p>

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