Overcoming Anxiety in Sex and Relationships - A Comprehensive Guide to Intimate and Emotional Freedom

This book gives readers an accessible and comprehensive understanding of how anxiety, stress, and pressure can have a profound impact on pleasure, connection, and sexual functioning, offering practical tips and techniques for resolving common sexual struggles.

List of contents

Introduction: What Sex Asks from Us
Part 1: Anxiety and Sex
1 What is Anxiety?
2 Sex as Natural Function
3 Physiology and Sexual Functioning (Vaguely Defined)
4 Performance, Goal Orientation, Strive Mindset
5 Mind/Body Connection and Disconnection
6 Emotion, Prediction, and Association
7 Putting it All Together: A Word About Pleasure
Part 2: What is My Anxiety Trying to Teach Me?
8 Arrested Development
9 Family Matters
10 Your Relationships
11 Disconnection
12 Insecurity and Confidence (Your Relationship to You)
13 Sexual Prowess and Inexperience
14 Sex and Aging, Sex and Death, Grief in Sex
15 Sexual Trauma
16 Sex as Pathology (Fantasy, Porn, Kink)
17 Sex "Addiction"
Part 3: Divorcing Anxiety from Your Sex Life: Actionable Steps
18 Taking Responsibility
19 Identifying and Managing Distancing Strategies
20 Mindfulness and Sensate Focus
21 Basic Practice
22 Advanced Practice: Erectile Dysfunction and Vaginismus
Conclusion: Trust Fall

About the author

Paula Leech, LMFT, CST-S, is a certified sex therapist who has worked with individuals, relationships, and families in private practice for over ten years. She mentors sex therapists in training, and teaches at various institutes across the USA and Canada.

Summary

This book gives readers an accessible and comprehensive understanding of how anxiety, stress, and pressure can have a profound impact on pleasure, connection, and sexual functioning, offering practical tips and techniques for resolving common sexual struggles.

Product details

• Authors: Paula Leech
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032438399
• ISBN: 978-1-03-243839-9
• No. of pages: 308
• Weight: 600 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; SELF-HELP / Anxieties & Phobias, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Couples & Family, Psychiatry, Family psychology, Psychotherapy, Coping with anxiety & phobias, Diseases & disorders, Social issues & processes, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Sexual Behaviour, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality, Psychiatric and mental disorders, Social counselling and advice services, Counselling & Advice Services, Coping with / advice about anxiety and phobias