Sexual Attraction in Therapy (eBook)

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

Maria Luca (Herausgeber)

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2013 | 1. Auflage
288 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-67430-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Sexual Attraction in Therapy 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.

* Challenges practitioners to think about sexual attraction as a
normal dynamic developing through the unique intimacy of the
therapy encounter

* 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

* 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

* 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

* Expert contributors include Doris McIlwain, Michael Worrell,
John Sommers-Flanagan and Martin Milton

Autor

Maria Luca 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 The Therapeutic Frame in the Clinical Context: Integrative Perspectives (2004).

Inhalt

Notes on Contributors xi

Acknowledgements xvi

Editorial Introduction: An Encounter with Erotic Desire in
Therapy xvii

Maria Luca

Part I Relational Perspectives on Sexual Attraction in
Therapy 1

1 'Hot Cognition in Sexual Attraction': Clarifying,
Using and Defusing the Dionysian in Cognitive Behavioural
Psychotherapies 3

Michael Worrell

2 Sexual Attraction in the Therapeutic Relationship: An
Integrative Perspective 22

John Nuttall

3 Existential Psychotherapy and Sexual Attraction: Meaning and
Authenticity in the Therapeutic Encounter 38

Michael D. Berry

4 Knowing but Not Showing: Achieving Reflective Encounter with
Desire - A Relational Psychoanalytic Perspective 53

Doris McIlwain

5 The Role of Psychological Proximity and Sexual Feelings in
Negotiating Relatedness in the Consulting Room: A Phenomenological
Perspective 67

Paul Smith-Pickard

6 An Acceptance Commitment Therapy Approach to Sexual Attraction
80

Richard Blonna

7 Addressing Sexual Attraction in Supervision 97

Kirsten W. Murray and John Sommers-Flanagan

8 Sexual Attraction in Conjoint Couple Therapy 115

Steven M. Harris and Tina M. Timm

9 Bound to the Mast: Reflections on Analytic Abstinence
131

Andrea Sabbadini

10 Why Can't We Be Lovers? The Love-Obsessed Clients Who
Stalk Their Therapist 137

Maria Luca and Juliet Soskice

Part II Research-Informed Theoretical and Clinical
Perspectives on Sexual Attraction in Therapy 151

11 Skilled Handling of Sexual Attraction in Therapy: A Grounded
Theory of What Makes the Difference 153

Anthony Arcuri and Doris McIlwain

12 The Self-Preservation Society: A Discourse Analysis of Male
Heterosexual Therapists and Discourses of Sexual Attraction
173

John Penny and Malcolm Cross

13 An Elephant in the Room: A Grounded Theory of Experienced
Psychotherapists' Reactions and Attitudes to Sexual
Attraction 193

Maria Luca and Mark Boyden

14 Therapists' Disclosures of Their Sexual Feelings to
Their Clients: The Importance of Honesty - An Interpretative
Phenomenological Approach 209

Anna Marshall and Martin Milton

15 Systemic Family Therapists' Narratives on Sexual
Attraction in Their Clinical Practice: A Narrative Analysis
226

Desa Markovic

Epilogue 242

Index 249

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.12.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
• Schlagworte: Practice Management • Psychologie • Psychology • Psychology Special Topics • Psychotherapie • Psychotherapie / Praxismanagement • Psychotherapie u. Beratung • Psychotherapy & Counseling • Spezialthemen Psychologie
• ISBN-10: 1-118-67430-8 / 1118674308
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-67430-7 / 9781118674307