ABSTRACT

Sex in Psychotherapy takes a psychodynamic approach to understanding recent technological and theoretical shifts in the field of psychotherapy. Lawrence Hedges provides an expert overview and analysis of a wide variety of new perspectives on sex, sexuality, gender, and identity; new theories about sex’s role in therapy; and new discoveries about the human brain and how it works. Therapists will value Hedges’s unique insights into the role of sexuality in therapy, which are grounded in the author’s studies of neurology, the history of sexuality, transference, resistance, and countertransference. Clinicians will also appreciate his provocative analyses of influential perspectives on sex, gender, and identity, and his lucid, concrete advice on the practice of therapeutic listening.

part |2 pages

PART 1 PERSPECTIVES FOR CONSIDERING SEX, SEXUALITY, GENDER, AND GENDER IDENTITY

chapter 1|40 pages

SEX, SEXUALITY, GENDER, AND IDENTITY

part |2 pages

PART 2 PUBLISHED ACCOUNTS OF SEX IN PSYCHOTHERAPY

part |2 pages

PART 3 THREE EXTENDED CASE STUDIES ILLUSTRATING SEX AND SEXUALITY IN THE TRANSFERENCE, RESISTANCE, AND COUNTERTRANSFERENCE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY