Attachment and Sexuality
Book Details
- Publisher : Analytic Press
- Published : 2007
- Cover : Hardback
- Category :
Attachment Theory - Category 2 :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 26092
- ISBN 13 : 9780881634662
- ISBN 10 : 0881634662
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The papers featured in Attachment and Sexuality create a dense tapestry, each forming a separate narrative strand that elucidates different configurations of the relationship between attachment and sexuality. As a whole, the volume explores the areas of convergence and divergence, opposition, and integration between these two systems. It suggests that there is a bi-directional web of influences that weaves the attachment and sexual systems together in increasingly complex ways from infancy to adulthood.
The volume's unifying thread is the idea that the attachment system, and particularly the degree of felt security, or lack thereof in relation to early attachment figures, provides a paradigm of relatedness that forms a scaffold for the developmental unfolding of sexuality in all its manifestations. Such manifestations include infantile and adult, masturbatory and mutual, and normative and perverse.
Also central to the papers is the idea that the development of secure attachment is predicated, in part, on the development of the capacity for mentalization, or the ability to envision and interpret the behavior of oneself and others in terms of intentional mental states, including desires, feelings, beliefs, and motivations. Topics discussed in the book will help to shape the direction and tenor of further dialogues in the arena of attachment and sexuality.
About the Editor(s)
Diana Diamond, PhD, is Professor Emerita in the Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology at the City University of New York and Senior Fellow at the Personality Disorders Institute at New York Presbyterian Hospital–Weill Cornell Medical College. She is also Adjunct Professor at the New School for Social Research and in New York University's Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Dr. Diamond's primary interests are developing psychodynamic approaches to treating patients with personality disorders, and assessing changes in attachment, mentalization, and mental representation. Author or coauthor of numerous papers and several books, she is a recipient of the Research Award from Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association. She serves on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Psychology and Psychoanalytic Inquiry, is Vice President of the Margaret Mahler Foundation, and has a private practice in New York City.
Joseph D. Lichtenberg, M.D., is Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Director Emeritus of the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, past President of the International Council for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, and member of the Program Committee of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He has authored and edited numerous books and articles, including Craft and Spirit: A Guide to the Exploratory Psychotherapies (Analytic Press, 2005) and Sensuality and Sexuality across the Divide of Shame (Analytic Press, 2007).
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