Sex and Self-Respect

The Quest for Personal Fulfillment

Philip M. Helfaer (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

1998
Praeger Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-0-275-96185-5 (ISBN)

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Not just another book about sexual abuse, this book explores the possibility of the hard but real journey to self-respect. It is an in-depth approach to understanding the individual's experience in sexual love, and an exploration of the nature of the self and sexuality. Describing a wide range of violations of sexuality and the resulting injuries to self-respect, it has the theoretical and clinical depth to be useful to professionals, while written in language accessible to the lay reader. The necessity of bringing in the body is examined and the text offers an experientially relevant way of conceptualizing bodily processes (bioenergetics) in sexuality and the self. This work affords new avenues for understanding the possibilities of the evolution of the self in adult life, and of child development toward the rebirth of self-respect and the development of a sexual ethic.

PHILIP M. HELFAER, Ph.D, maintains an independent psychological and bioenergetic practice. He is a member of the Faculty of the International Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis, and teaches in Israel and Norway, as well as the United States.

Introduction
Toward an Organismic Theory of the Self
Sex and Self-Respect in Personal Fulfillment
Identification with the Genital
Seeing the Person: Bioenergetic Analysis
Violations of Sexuality
The Sexual Misery of Our Time
Genital Incest Desires
Sexual Craziness versus Sexual Passion
Shock, Genital Injury, and Dissociation
The Hated Child
Shame and Guilt
Toward a Self-Respecting Sexuality
The Vital Connection
A Facilitating Environment for Self-Respect
The Individual in the Couple
Living One's Sexuality
References
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.7.1998
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	595 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
ISBN-10	0-275-96185-0 / 0275961850
ISBN-13	978-0-275-96185-5 / 9780275961855
Zustand	Neuware