Sexual Healing: Stories and insights from the therapist`s couch

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Through tales of adultery and addiction, desire and its loss, good sex, bad sex and no sex, sexual power struggles, and childhood abuse this book covers the big questions about sex:

What is the nature of passion and desire

How can we remain faithful in a long-term relationship

What happens to sex when you have a baby

How anxiety and shame are the enemies of pleasure

How anger, blame and guilt put us off sex

How childhood messages turn us towards diverse behaviours and fantasies

How changing gender roles are playing out in the bedroom

How our sexuality develops throughout our lives

How to address sexual difficulties and find healing with sex therapy exercises

Whether we are sexually active or not, our sexuality is a vital part of our being. The variety and complexity of sex and sexuality are richly illustrated in these unique and compelling stories. Illuminated by psychological insights, they can bring informed awareness and healing to the reader.

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This intriguing little book examines our relationships with sex and ultimately considers how it can be understood as a form of healing. * Soul & Spirit *

Author Bio

Author Carol Martin-Sperry has worked with couples and individuals for over 25 years. She trained with Relate and now manages a (bi-lingual) private practice in London. She is a fellow of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and is their media spokesperson. Her textbook Couples and Sex was published by Radcliffe Publishing in December 2003 and is still in print Carol is a broadcaster, writer and consultant on counselling and therapeutic issues and was named in the Evening Standard list of top 20 London therapists and profiled in The Guardian. See her website www.shrinkrap.co.uk.