Quickies : The Handbook of Brief Sex Therapy

by Flemons, Douglas; Green, Shelley

• ISBN13: 9780393703818
• ISBN10: 0393703819
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-04-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Intended to tickle your sense of humor as well as enliven your therapeutic imagination, Quickies demonstrates that the best sex therapy is often the briefest. Readers will find here a refreshing array of time-efficient, client-focused approaches for working with sexual problems. Informed by theory but geared toward therapeutic practice, each chapter of this handbook includes clinical case examples that illustrate how to help clients celebrate rather than fear their sexuality.Green and Flemons have gathered a host of authors who possess a wealth of experience and great clinical insight. The contributors, all prominent practitioners of brief therapy, share a passion for accessing the expertise and wisdom of their clients, pointing them away from terminal diagnoses, and directing them toward creative, significant therapeutic change. While all of the authors share a commitment to brevity and respectful practice, they each offer distinctive ideas and techniques for working with a wide range of presenting complaints, from ?exual addiction'and ?ismatches of desire,?to erection problems, painful intercourse, and ?ad orgasms.'The resources made available in Quickies are diverse and rich; each chapter offers unique insight into the clinical thinking and therapeutic approach of one or more expert practitioners. What the editors have done, in effect, is set before readers a series of therapeutic tutorials that will develop and fine-tune the practice of experienced and novice clinicians alike.Some family and couples therapists, feeling embarrassed or ignorant, shy away from working with their clients'sexual struggles, and some sex therapists aren? sure what to do with problems that transcend sexual interactions. The contributors to Quickies, sensitive to such concerns, offer therapeutic doorways both into and out of the bedroom. Anyone working with the sexual problems and fears of couples and individuals will benefit from the wit and wisdom on display in these pages.

Author Biography

Shelley Green, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Family Therapy at Nova Southeastern University, is a clinical member and approved supervisor of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy Douglas Flemons, Ph.D., Director of the Brief Therapy Institute and Professor of Family Therapy at Nova Southeastern University, is a clinical member and approved supervisor of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy

Table of Contents

Foreword
Karl Tomm	ix
Contributors	xiii
Preface	xix
Acknowledgments	xxi
Introduction	xxiii
1 Come Again? From Possibility Therapy to Sex Therapy
Bill O'Hanlon	1	(14)
2 Multicontextual Sex Therapy with Lesbian Couples
Suzanne Iasenza	15	(11)
3 Getting "In the Mood" (For a Change): Stage-Appropriate Clinical Work for Sexual Problems
Scott D. Miller, Karen M. Donahey, and Mark A. Hubble	26	(19)
4 Shining Light on Intimacy and Sexual Pleasure
Carol Lankton	45	(23)
5 Premature Ejaculation of "Sexual Addiction" Diagnoses
Tracy Todd	68	(19)
6 Out of My Office and Into the Bedroom
Thorana S. Nelson	87	(17)
7 Unique Problems, Unique Resolutions: Brief Treatment of Sexual Complaints
Monte Bobele	104	(22)
8 Just Between Us: A Relational Approach to Sex Therapy
Douglas Flemons and Shelley Green	126	(25)
9 Who Really Wants to Sleep With the Medical Model? An Eclectic/Narrative Approach to Sex Therapy
Robert E. Doan	151	(20)
10 How Do Therapists of Same-Sex Couples "Do It"?
Janie K. Long and Ursula K. Pietsch	171	(18)
11 A Catalytic Approach to Brief Sex Therapy
J. Scott Fraser and Andy Solovev	189	(24)
12 "Don't Get Too Bloody Optimistic": John Weakland at Work
Wendel A. Ray and Barbara Anger-Diaz	213	(38)
Afterword	251	(2)
Index	253