Sexual Attraction in Therapy - Clinical Perspectives on Moving Beyond Taboo A Guide for Training

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.

List 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

About the author

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).

Summary

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.

Report

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)

Product details

• Authors: M Luca, Maria Luca, Maria (Regent''''s University Luca
• Assisted by: Mari Luca (Editor), Maria Luca (Editor), Luca Maria (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.03.2014
• EAN: 9781118674345
• ISBN: 978-1-118-67434-5
• No. of pages: 284
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Psychologie, Psychotherapie, Psychology, practice management, Psychotherapy & Counseling, Psychotherapie u. Beratung, Psychotherapie / Praxismanagement