Sensate Focus and the Psyche - Integrating Sense and Sexuality in Couple Therapy

This book explores both psychoanalytic and psychosexual perspectives of sensate focus, a programme of touching exercises for couples with sexual problems, and in so doing provides an original, integrated model for understanding the conscious and unconscious impact of this tactile intervention on couples in treatment.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Foreword by David Scharff
1. Conceiving
2. Splitting
3. Sensing
4. Embodying
5. Asserting
6. Integrating
Index

About the author

Susan Pacey is a psychosexual and couple psychotherapist in private practice in Central London and formerly in the NHS. She was awarded the degree of Doctor of Couple Psychotherapy by Tavistock Relationships and the University of East London in 2018. She is a teacher and author of several papers on sexuality and couples, and was an editor of the international journal Sexual and Relationship Therapy for seven years.

Summary

This book explores both psychoanalytic and psychosexual perspectives of sensate focus, a programme of touching exercises for couples with sexual problems, and in so doing provides an original, integrated model for understanding the conscious and unconscious impact of this tactile intervention on couples in treatment.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Pacey
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.10.2023
• EAN: 9781032357393
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3235739-3
• No. of pages: 116
• Series: The Library of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Sexual abuse & harassment, Family psychology, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Sexual abuse and harassment, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis