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Published UK, 2009
This book explores sexuality in the contexts of couple relationships and psychotherapy. It presents a range of psychoanalytic and psychodynamic perspectives from which problematic sexual experience - that is, sexual experience that has troubled couples sufficiently for them to seek outside help - might be understood and worked with. Rooted in clinical practice, the book assembles a rich diversity of approaches that will interest anyone wanting to learn more about the affective dimensions of sexual experience and seeking to apply this in their work with couples. The book marks the sixtieth anniversary of the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships.

CHAPTER HIGHLIGHTS
Separated Attachments and Sexual Aliveness
Dynamics and Disorders of Sexual Desire
Loss of Desire and Therapist Dread
Power versus Love in Sadomasochistic Couple Relationships
Perversion as Protection
Intimacy and Sexuality in Later Life

Christopher Clulow is a Senior Fellow at the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships in the UK.
Paperback. 243 pages