Sex, Attachment and Couple Psychotherapy

What, from a psychoanalytic point of view, constitute the 'facts of life'? What are the stories that our professional mentors tell us about the psychological equivalents of the 'birds and the bees'? This book explores sexuality in the contexts of couple relationships and psychotherapy.

Christopher Clulow

Foreword -- The facts of life: an introduction -- Psychoanalysis and sexpertise -- What do we mean by "sex"? -- Lively and deathly intercourse -- Separated attachments and sexual aliveness -- Dynamics and disorders of sexual desire -- Sexual dread and the therapist's desire -- Loss of desire and therapist dread -- Loss of desire: a psycho-sexual case study -- Power vs. love in sadomasochistic couple relationships -- From fear of intimacy to perversion -- Perversion as protection -- Intimacy and sexuality in later life