Sexual Attraction in Therapy: Clinical Perspectives on Moving Beyond the Taboo - A Guide for Training and Practice

Sexual Attraction in Therapy: Clinical Perspectives on Moving Beyond the Taboo - A Guide for Training and Practice
ISBN-10
1118674324
ISBN-13
9781118674321
Category
Psychology
Pages
288
Language
English
Published
2013-12-24
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Author
Maria Luca

Description

Sexual Attraction in Therapy presents new findings frommultiple perspectives into the complex phenomenon of sexualattraction in therapy. Detailed clinical examples and strategiesfrom expert contributors demonstrate how therapists can engage withsexual attraction, when it arises, in positive ways that facilitateclient progress and ensure appropriate professionalconduct. Challenges practitioners to think about sexual attraction as anormal dynamic developing through the unique intimacy of thetherapy encounter Presents new findings from research to enrich understanding ofthe lived experience of therapists and how they confront, avoid,make use of the process of sexual attraction Provides clinical examples to highlight common challenges facedby practitioners, the strategies they use to overcome them and howthey normalize the ‘taboo’ of sexual attraction to makepositive use of it in therapy Makes an important contribution to current literature onprofessional practice, an area of increasing importance as moreemphasis is placed on issues of ethics, ongoing supervision andappropriate professional conduct Expert contributors include Doris McIlwain, Michael Worrell,John Sommers-Flanagan and Martin Milton

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