Coming Home To Passion Restoring Loving Sexuality In Couples With Histories Of Childhood Trauma And Neglect

• Author : Ruth Cohn
• Publisher : ABC-CLIO
• Release Date : 2011-02-18

This book offers a detailed road map for overcoming sexual and relationship impasses originating from painful childhood experiences. • Provides a manual of ten sequential, structured activities that can guide readers in their concrete work on relationships and sexuality • Illustrates dynamics painfully familiar to readers with numerous stories of real-life case

• Author : Stephanie Buehler, PsyD, CST-S
• Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
• Release Date : 2016-11-07

The second edition of this acclaimed guide to understanding sexuality and working with clients on sexuality issues is extensively updated to reflect recent scientific, practical, and social developments in the field. It provides updated information on relevant disorders in the DSM-5, new theoretical approaches, new pharmacological treatments, updated information on

• Author : Stephanie Buehler, PsyD, CST-S
• Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
• Release Date : 2018-02-28

This practical, evidence-based resource is the first available guide for health care providers and mental health professionals on advising and counseling couples and individuals who are experiencing sexual issues directly related to conception efforts, pregnancy, and the post-partum period. Authored by a noted sex therapist, the book offers providers current,

• Author : Gina Ogden
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2017-10-02

How do we help our clients discover the depth and breadth of sexual healing? Extraordinary Sex Therapy offers a range of innovative health-based approaches and models to explore the complexities inherent in sexual pleasure and potential as well as in trauma, pain, and dysfunction. The practitioners whose work is represented

• Author : Ruth Cohn
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2021-08

This book provides psychotherapists with a multidimensional view of childhood neglect and a practical roadmap for facilitating survivors' healing. Working from a strong base in attachment theory, esteemed clinician Ruth Cohn explores ways therapists can recognize the signs of childhood neglect, provides recommendations for understanding lasting effects that can persist

• Author : Douglas Braun-Harvey, MA, MFT, CGP, CST,Michael A. Vigorito, LMFT, LCPC, CGP
• Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
• Release Date : 2015-11-05

Out of control sexual behavior ñ referred to variously as "sex addiction", "sexual compulsivity", and "hypersexuality", among other terms, has been a controversial and attention-getting issue since it first captured both public and professional attention over 30 years ago. Previous discussions of this behavior have been grounded in conceptualizing it as a

• Author : Lauren Dundes
• Publisher : MDPI
• Release Date : 2019-07-11

In this volume of 15 articles, contributors from a wide range of disciplines present their analyses of Disney movies and Disney music, which are mainstays of popular culture. The power of the Disney brand has heightened the need for academics to question whether Disney’s films and music function as a

• Author : Megan R. Gerber
• Publisher : Springer
• Release Date : 2019-04-12

Interpersonal trauma is ubiquitous and its impact on health has long been understood. Recently, however, the critical importance of this issue has been magnified in the public eye. A burgeoning literature has demonstrated the impact of traumatic experiences on mental and physical health, and many potential interventions have been proposed.

• Author : Leonard Shengold
• Publisher : Yale University Press
• Release Date : 2000-09-10

Annotation A decade after the publication of his highly acclaimed book Soul Murder, Dr. Leonard Shengold reflects anew on the circumstances and the consequences of willful abuse and neglect of children. With compelling examples from literature and from clinical cases, Dr. Shengold describes techniques of adaptation and denial by victims,

• Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on the Neurobiological and Socio-behavioral Science of Adolescent Development and Its Applications
• Publisher : National Academies Press
• Release Date : 2019-07-26

Adolescenceâ€"beginning with the onset of puberty and ending in the mid-20sâ€"is a critical period of development during which key areas of the brain mature and develop. These changes in brain structure, function, and connectivity mark adolescence as a period of opportunity to discover new vistas, to form

• Author : Norman Doidge
• Publisher : Scribe Publications
• Release Date : 2010

An astonishing new scientific discovery called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the adult human brain is fixed and unchanging. It is, instead, able to change its own structure and function, even into old age. Psychiatrist and rersearcher Norman Doidge, M.D., travelled around the United States to meet

• Author : Katherine M. Hertlein,Gerald R. Weeks,Nancy Gambescia
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2015-02-20

This comprehensive textbook, intended for graduate students in couple and family therapy programs as well as for clinicians of diverse orientations, offers descriptive discussions of sex therapy based on the Intersystem Approach, as developed by Gerald Weeks. The Intersystem Approach considers the biology, psychology, couple dyad, family-of-origin, and larger contextual

• Author : Hannah Dyer
• Publisher : Rutgers University Press
• Release Date : 2019-11-08

In The Queer Aesthetics of Childhood, Hannah Dyer offers a study of how children’s art and art about childhood can forecast new models of social life that redistribute care, belonging, and political value. Dyer suggests that childhood’s cultural expressions offer insight into the persisting residues of colonial history,

• Author : Glenn N. Saxe,B. Heidi Ellis,Adam D. Brown
• Publisher : Guilford Publications
• Release Date : 2015-11-11

"For too many traumatized children and their families, chronic stressors such as poverty, substance abuse, and family or community violence--coupled with an overburdened care system/m-/pose seemingly insurmountable barriers to treatment. This empowering book provides a user-friendly blueprint for making the most of limited resources to help those considered

• Author : Myles Munroe
• Publisher : Whitaker House
• Release Date : 2009-10-27

Women of every culture and society are facing the dilemma of identity. Traditional views of what it means to be a woman and changing cultural and marital roles are causing women conflict in their relationships with men. Women are under tremendous stress as they struggle to discover who they are