Sensate Focus and the Psyche

Integrating Sense and Sexuality in Couple Therapy

Susan Pacey (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

116 Seiten

2023
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-36782-4 (ISBN)

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This book explores both psychoanalytic and psychosexual perspectives of sensate focus, a programme of touching exercises for couples with sexual problems, and in so doing provides an original, integrated model for understanding the conscious and unconscious impact of this tactile intervention on couples in treatment.

Sensate Focus and the Psyche explores in depth both psychoanalytic and psychosexual perspectives of sensate focus, a programme of touching exercises for couples with sexual problems, and in so doing provides an original, integrated model for understanding the conscious and unconscious impact of this tactile intervention on couples in treatment.

Susan Pacey reviews the historical relationship between psychoanalysis and sex therapy and the splitting of mind, body and relationship since Freud. She illustrates how the tactile intervention can help repair the early life impingements on partners’ individual development that mobilise anxieties about sexuality and shame in adulthood. Case studies illustrate how sensate focus can help conceptualise unconscious embodied memories, repair shame, encourage Winnicottian play, work through transitional phenomena and develop psychological space, establishing a platform for the healthy expression of adult sexuality. Pacey discusses how sexual desire and aggression are inextricably linked in the human psyche, proposing that sensate focus can help enable positive aggression necessary for sex and reduce the potential for partners’ anxieties about their psychological separateness. Lastly, she proposes judicious use of this powerful, tactile intervention and highlights contraindications.

Sensate Focus and the Psyche will be essential reading for all psychotherapists who work with individuals, couples and families.

Susan Pacey is a psychosexual and couple psychotherapist in private practice in Central London and formerly in the NHS. She was awarded the degree of Doctor of Couple Psychotherapy by Tavistock Relationships and the University of East London in 2018. She is a teacher and author of several papers on sexuality and couples, and was an editor of the international journal Sexual and Relationship Therapy for seven years.

Acknowledgements

Foreword by David Scharff

1. Conceiving

2. Splitting

3. Sensing

4. Embodying

5. Asserting

6. Integrating

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	24.10.2023
Reihe/Serie	The Library of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	240 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Familien- / Systemische Therapie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-367-36782-3 / 0367367823
ISBN-13	978-0-367-36782-4 / 9780367367824
Zustand	Neuware