1st Edition
Extraordinary Sex Therapy Creative Approaches for Clinicians
1. Introduction: Are We Asking Questions that Help Our Clients? Gina Ogden
2. Sexotic therapy: embracing the exotic, irrational and paradoxical experience of living and loving Alireza Tabatabaie
3. Extraordinary interventions for extraordinary clients: existential sex therapy and open non-monogamy Michael D. Berry and Meg Barker
3. In search of Aphrodite: working with archetypes and an inner cast of characters in women with low sexual desire Chelsea Wakefield
4. An integrative medicine approach to the treatment of HSDD: introducing the HURT ModelTM Keesha Ewers
5. Compassionate authenticity: a treatment model for working with women with low libido Lindsay B. Jernigan
6. Sex addiction – an extraordinarily contentious problem Paula Hall
7. Calming the tempest, bridging the gorge: healing in couples ruptured by "sex addiction" Ruth Cohn
8. Getting in touch with touch: a use of caressing exercises to enrich sensual connection and evoke ecstatic experience in couples Linda De Villers
9. "Extraordinary" sex coaching: an inside look Patti Britton and Sarah Rose Bright
10. Sexual healing with Amazonian plant teachers: a heuristic inquiry of women’s spiritual–erotic awakenings Yalila Espinoza
11. Reclaiming women’s sexuality: the intersection of Shamanic practices and sex therapy Linda E. Savage
12. In praise of "ordinary" sex therapy Pam Henderson
Biography
Gina Ogden PhD, LMFT is an award-winning sex therapist, supervisor, researcher, teacher, and author. She is founder of the ISIS Network, an international collaboration of practitioners whose mission is to expand the practice of sex therapy to include the full range of personal and relational issues: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual.
'this publication certainly offers something ‘extra’ to the UK sex therapy community. This is achieved partly by describing non-UK perspectives and addressing contentious areas such as sex coaching and sex addiction, but largely by taking an integrative, inclusive and holistic approach to working with sexual issues, bridging analytic and behavioural models with the addition of spirit and soul...The overall message of this publication is to look beyond pathology and biology towards the essentially individual and complex sexual identities of each client, captured in the neat existential concepts of ‘bracketing’ and ‘horizontalizing’ (chapter 3) – that is, holding our client’s map of the world distinct from and no less valuable than our own'- Julie Sale, Therapy Today, July 2015
