Sexual attraction in therapy : clinical perspectives on moving beyond the taboo : a guide for training and practice
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Sexual attraction in therapy : clinical perspectives on moving beyond the taboo : a guide for training and practice
Wiley Blackwell, 2014
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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
Table of Contents
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
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