ABSTRACT

This important book explores the history of sexuality and the breadth of support available to people experiencing sex and relationship challenges, presenting a model of psychosexual therapy that’s contextualised in the past, present and future and examined within a developmental and relational framework.

Sexual Grounding Therapy focusses on the work of Willem Poppeliers, who developed his unique approach to sex and relationship issues in the 1990s. Geoff Lamb explores the model’s historical context; offers a comparison with other contemporary approaches, both mainstream and alternative; describes the model and its application in detail; and looks at future directions for this innovative work. While Poppeliers’ approach to psychosexual therapy is radical, Geoff’s book emphasises and goes beyond this, taking a controversial stance on such topics as sexuality and religion, psychotherapy and science, and the position of both psychotherapy and psychosexual therapy in today’s society.

Sexual Grounding Therapy explores how people’s needs at each stage of their lifelong psychosexual development relate to any current sex and relationship problems they may be experiencing. It will be invaluable, not only to professionals – counsellors, psychotherapists and others whose work involves sex and relationships – but also to readers who are interested in exploring their own self-development and relationships from a historical, social and family perspective.

chapter |3 pages

Introduction

part 1|18 pages

Exploration

part 2|28 pages

Comparison

part 3|57 pages

The SGT model

chapter |3 pages

Introduction to Part 3

chapter 5|4 pages

Revelation – the Oedipal stage

chapter 6|10 pages

Puberty and adolescence

chapter 7|7 pages

Adolescence to adulthood

chapter 8|6 pages

Adulthood towards ripening

chapter 9|4 pages

Ripening

chapter 10|3 pages

Ageing

chapter 11|3 pages

Leaving and dying

chapter 12|9 pages

The application of the model

chapter |1 pages

Conclusion to Part 3

part 4|22 pages

Future perspective

chapter 14|4 pages

The present and future of the organisation

chapter 15|4 pages

The clinical future of SGT

chapter 16|6 pages

SGT in the world

chapter 17|3 pages

SGT and science

chapter 18|3 pages

Ending