Sexual Attraction in Therapy

Clinical Perspectives on Moving Beyond the Taboo - A Guide for Training and Practice
Herausgegeben von Luca, Maria

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Moving beyond psychoanalytic theories of transference and countertransference, this guide for practitioners and students explores the real-world phenomenon of sexual attraction in therapy across a wide range of modalities including CBT and ACT.

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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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 178mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9781118674345
• ISBN-10: 1118674340
• Artikelnr.: 40134450

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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

Rezensionen

B = Standard Review List
US
1. American Journal of Psychiatry
2. American Psychologist
3. North American Journal of Psychology.
4. J. Amer. Psychoana. Assn.
5. Contemporary Psychoanalysis.
6. Journal of Anal. Psychol.
7. Journal of Clinical Psychoanalysis. (USA). [author has been published in this journal]
8. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration (SEPI) and (APA)
9. Journal of Phenomenological Psychology (Brill)
10. Journal of Mental Health Counseling

Also: PsyCritiques (3 copies)

UK/ROW
I published two research articles in the Counselling & Psychotherapy Research Journal (BACP). The Journal of The Society for Existential Analysis is sponsored by Regent's University and read by many of our students/trainees. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice by the British Psychological Society is recommended to all our students and is widely read. The other journals cover a range of training institutions and modalities, which captures the essence of the book.

1. Annual Review of Psychology.
2. British Journal of Psychiatry.
3. Journal of Counselling Psychology (APA).
4. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice (BPS).
5. Counselling & Psychotherapy Research (The BACP research journal published by Taylor & Francis).
6. Journal of The Society for Existential Analysis
7. The Psychotherapist. UKCP.
8. International Journal of Psychotherapy, European Association of Psychotherapy: EAP.
9. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy. (BABCP) Cambridge.
10. Psychotherapy Research. Society for Psychotherapy Research (pub. Taylor & Francis).
11. British Journal of Psychotherapy. British Association of Psychotherapists: www.bap-psychotherapy.org
12. Contemporary Psychotherapy. Minster Centre, London, UK (e-journal)
13. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice. British Psychological Society.
14. The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist (BABCP).
15. Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane. (independent journal)