1st Edition
Eroticism Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS
INTRODUCTION
PART I: Developmental Realm
Chapter One: Eroticism from an Evolutionary Perspective - J. Anderson Thomson & Kathryn Baselice
Chapter Two: Maternal Eroticism or the Necessary Risk of Madness - Rachel Boue Widawsky
Chapter Three: Locating the Father’s Eroticism - Susan McNamara & Ethan Grumbach
Chapter Four: The Role of Innate Bisexuality in Adult Eroticism - Rajiv Gulati and David Pauley
PART II: Cultural Realm
Chapter Five: Cross-cultural Variations of Eroticism - Pranav Shah
Chapter Six: Fantasy, Sadism, and the Fetish in Pornography - Jason A. Wheeler Vega
Chapter Seven: Swipe, Woof, Flirt, and the Erotics of the Hand-held Device - R. Dennis Shelby
PART III: Clinical Realm
Chapter Eight: Adult Sexuality in Clinical Discourse - Louis Rothschild
Chapter Nine: Voyeurism - Salman Akhtar
Chapter Ten: Clinical Lessons Learnt from Eight Important Papers on Erotic and Erotized Transferences - Lorrie Chopra
Chapter Eleven: Erotic countertransference revelations - Andrea Celenza
References
Index
Biography
Salman Akhtar is Professor of Psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. He has 97 books to his credit and received the prestigious Sigourney Award in 2012.
Rajiv Gulati is Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the Psychoanalytic Association of New York, which is affiliated with NYU Langone Medical Center in New York.
"This much-needed new volume edited by Salman Akhtar and Rajiv Gulati, brings freshness and vitality to the topic of embodied sexuality. The multitude of issues taken up within the book’s developmental, cultural, and clinical sections broadens psychoanalytic discourse about the sexual, while the diversity of contributors helps open the discussion to all. One of the oldest topics in psychoanalysis is made new again just when we need it most." –Charles Fisher M.D., Training and Supervising Analyst, San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
"This exquisite collection of essays on the topic of Eroticism, will fascinate, challenge , and indeed, mesmerize it’s readers. It gives us new insights into areas that have been explored before, and takes up, boldly, beautifully, and incisively, certain aspects of eroticism that have not been written about enough. Akhtar and Gulati have edited a masterpiece, the readers of which can look forward to a wonderful feast of learning about the erotic world in our minds." –Aisha Abbasi M.D., Training and Supervising Analyst at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute
