Sex Therapy with Erotically Marginalized Clients: Nine Principles of Clinical Support

ISBN-13: 9781138671812 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 260 str.

Shannon Sennott;Liz Chandler;Damon Constantinides

Opis

This clinical guide focuses on couples and relational sex therapy with people where one or more of the partners identifies as an erotic minority: a person who identifies as LGB, queer, trans*, intersex, poly, kink/BDSM, person of size, or who has an alternative relational sexual structure in general. Through an exploration, and expansion, of historical sex therapy models, the authors will deepen the reader's understanding of the needs of erotic minorities. Ten principles for affirmative therapeutic practice are presented to aid clinicians in better meeting the needs of erotic minorities in the face of a sexuality and desire landscape that is rarely spoken about and for which there is little language in therapeutic contexts. These ten principles provide a tool for work with clients who are not just negotiating changes in their relationship structure but are looking to deepen the intimacy of their sexual practices through creating language for the liminal unspoken awarenesses that lie between touch and how one feels desired by another when they are truly and authentically seen by a sexual partner. Case examples are used throughout the book to demonstrate how these ten best practices work in action.