Psychoanalytic Sex Therapy: Exploring the Unconscious Life of Sexuality
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 2025
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 192
- Category :
Forthcoming - Category 2 :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 98314
- ISBN 13 : 9781032327303
- ISBN 10 : 1032327308
Table of Contents
Introduction — My Journey: From the Couch to the Consulting Room: How Psychoanalysis and Sex Therapy Came Together
1. From Silence to Discourse: Addressing Sexuality in the Counseling Room
2. Listening to What We Feel: Countertransference as Compass 3. The Erotic Mirror: Narcissism, Trauma, and the Sexual Self
4. Power at Play: BDSM, Relational Dynamics, and Therapeutic Healing
5. Sexual Healing: Masturbation, Trauma, and the Body’s Wisdom
6. Is Porn to Blame?: Rethinking Pornography in Sex Therapy
7. Binging on Sex: Transforming Compulsive Sexual Behavior
8. More Than the Agreement: Love, Loss, and Boundaries in Consensual Non-Monogamy
9. Between Knowing and Not Knowing: A Story of Sexual Fluidity
10. The Unconscious as Orgasm: Sex and the Journey into the Unknown
11. Desire Discrepancy: When Arousal and Attachment Collide
Conclusion - Where Do We Go From Here?: Toward a Relational Future in Sex Therapy
Addendum - Sometimes a Cigar Is Just a Cigar: The Case for Simple Solutions