SEX IN PSYCHOTHERAPY - SEXUALITY, PASSION, LOVE, AND DESIRE IN THE THERAPEUTIC ENCOUNTER

ACKNOWLEOGMENTS XI
INTROOUCTION: BOY MEETS GIRL. XIII
Historical and Cross-Cultural Considerations XV
Brain and Neurological Considerations XX

PART 1
PERSPECTIVES FOR CONSIDERING SEX, SEXUALlTY, GENDER, AND GENDER IDENTITY

CHAPTER 1
SEX, SEXUALITY, GENOER, ANO IOENTITY 3
The Natural/Religious/Biological Perspective 3
The Infant-Caregiver/Erotic Interaction Perspective 6
The Personal Identity Perspective 11
The Perspective of Dissociation, Otherness, and Multiple Selves 14
The Postmodern Social-Constructionist Perspective 17
The Race/Ethnicity/Sexuality Perspective 19
The Perspective of Mimetics 22
The Perspective of Trauma and Transgenerational Ghosts 24
The Intersubjective Perspective 31
The Relational/Thirdness Perspective 35
My Relatedness Listening Perspectives Approach 37

PART 2 PUBLISHED ACCOUNTS OF SEX IN PSYCHOTHERAPY

CHAPTER 2 SEXUALlZED THERAPEUTIC ENCOUNTERS 45
Some Relational Countertransference Issues 47
Developmental Listening 52

CHAPTER 3 THE PERSONALlTY IN ORGANIZATION: THE SEARCH FOR RELATEDNESS 55
Précis: Listening to the Search for Relatedness- The Organizing Experience 56
Searles: Love in the Countertransference 57
Ogden: Split-Off Homoerotic Brutalization 61
Moss and Zeavin: Having a Man 64
Buchanan: Ensnared by Eros 66

CHAPTER 4 SYMBIOSIS AND SEPARATION: MUTUALLY DEPENDENT RELATEDNESS 81
Précis: Listening to Mutually Dependent (Symbiotic) Experience 82
Rosiello: Disavowed Love as the Erotic Countertransference 83
Rosiello: Performance of Affect and Gender 87
Orbach: A Countertransference Rape Fantasy 88
Mitchell: The Horror of Surrendering 90
Gorkin: Magical Cure by Copulation 92
Gorkin: Sadistic Sexual Countertransference Fantasies 94
Gorkin: Erotic Countertransference as a Clue to Gender Identity Issues 95

CHAPTER 5 THE EMERGENT SELF: UNILATERALLY DEPENDENT RELATEDNESS 97
Précis: Listening to Unilaterally Dependent (Self-Other) Experience 98
Lewes: Working Through Displays of Male Bravado 98
Corbett: Countertransference Fear of Passivity- ¿The Father Censure 101
Corbett: Case of Luke-Expanding Sexual Identities 103
Coverdale: A Countertransference Reaction to Budding Exhibitionism 105
Mitchell: Maintaining an Open Clinical Position 108
Wirtkin-Sasso: The Analytic Use of Desire 111
Hedges: Stephen, Sean, Pornography, and the Internet 113

CHAPTER 6 SELF AND OTHER CONSTANCY: INDEPENDENT RELATEDNESS 121
Précis: Listening to the Independent Relatedness Experience 122
Kernberg: Love in the Analytic Setting 123
McDougall: Homoerotic Stimulation in the Countertransference 126
Précis: The Listening Perspective Approach 130

PART 3 THREE EXTENOEO CASE STUDIES ILLUSTRATING SEX AND SEXUALlTY IN THE TRANSFERENCE, RESISTANCE, ANO COUNTERTRANSFERENCE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY

CHAPTER 7 THREE EXTENDED CASE STUDIES 133
Dora: Eros in the Transference 133
Ted: Eros in the Resistance 139
Charles: Eros in the Countertransference 150
Conclusions 167

REFERENCES 171
ABOUT THE AUTHOR 179
ABOUT LAWRENCE HEDGES OTHER BOOKS 181
INDEX 185