+ Spiritual Threads in Psychotherapeutic Work + Women On The Couch + Working with Sexuality + Psychopathology: Theory and Practice + Fragile Selves -- * ARCHIVE Working with Sexuality: Bodies, Desires and Imagination HOME > ONLINE MODULES > Working with Sexuality: Bodies, Desires and Imagination Working with Sexuality: Bodies, Desires and Imagination With Module Speakers: -- * Therapeutic skills of its centrality to human experience, sexuality has always been a prime focus of clinical and theoretical debate, as well as controversy. Sexual desire and behaviour can reflect our attachment style, be -- find themselves uncertain about and avoidant of working with their client’s most intimate desires and the erotic aspects of transference. An in-depth knowledge of our own sexuality and our ethical responsibilities towards clients can enhance the safety and intimacy of the therapeutic relationship and help prevent sexual boundary -- Brett Kahr gives an overview of Freud’s pioneering theories of sexuality and its role in the development of the psyche. He gives fascinating details of his own extensive survey that gathered the sexual fantasies of 25,000 British and American people aged 18 to 94. As one of the few therapists trained to work with both individuals and couples Kahr also shares the unique perspective this has given him on the role of sexuality in the couple relationship. Video interview with slides – 1 hr 10 mins -- that whilst Freud was perhaps right in thinking that the infant’s psyche is polymorphously perverse, he may have been wrong to conclude that as adults we ever entirely outgrow this aspect of our sexuality. Audio lecture with slides – 34 mins -- Christiane Sanderson shares her perspective on how therapy can best support survivors of childhood sexual abuse as well as her extensive knowledge of how this kind of trauma can affect a person’s sexuality and capacity for intimacy. -- Professor Stephen Porges Discussion on Polyvagal Theory and Sexuality Neuroscientist Dr Stephen Porges discusses how trauma affects the -- Dr Anton Hart Attending to Sexuality in the Psychoanalytic Relationship Anton Hart discusses the importance of therapists being open to and curious about their own and their clients’ sexuality. As infants our sense of mind and sexuality develops in relation to caregivers and, as adults, our sexuality and our attitudes towards it reflect much about our individual human experience. Issues of privacy, shame and otherness contend with desires for connectedness, union and fulfilment in ways -- and Donald Trump), this article considers the relationship between the destructive and oppressive forces that underlie these abuses, and aspects of “ordinary” sexuality that people struggle to integrate in their relational lives. The author explores the ways that such ordinary sexuality, particularly under ubiquitous conditions of patriarchy, is likely to include aspects of objectification, coercion, and exploitation. Further considered is the psychical and relational -- with a focus on showing how therapists can best support themselves and clients and work more authentically courageously and responsibly with issues of sexuality and the process of erotic transference. *Further Case Study Transcripts (see attached) – Through these -- Drawing on the candour of analyst Harold Searles, Oakley suggests that sexuality is always present between analyst and client and that this generates the ‘alive’ quality that patients experience during the encounter. However, it is only the non-enactment of that sexual -- Dr Galit Atlas And Dr Jessica Benjamin The ‘Too Muchness’ of Excitement: Sexuality in Light of Excess, Attachment and Affect Regulation. Dr Galit Atlas and Dr Jessica Benjamin interviewed by Dr Steven Kuchuck. -- Dr Stephen Kuchuck explores with the authors the ideas contained in their ground breaking joint paper on the role of infant attachment in the development of sexuality and the adult’s ability to tolerate sexual pleasure. We recommend you read the paper before watching via this link: