Sexual Grounding Therapy

This important book explores the history of sexuality and the breadth of support available to people experiencing sex and relationship challenges, presenting a model of psychosexual therapy that's contextualized in the past, present and future and examined within a developmental and relational framework.

Geoff Lamb has been a practising psychotherapist for 35 years. He also practises as a couple and psychosexual therapist. Geoff retired as director of the counselling training institute, Inter-Psyche, in 2017 and, apart from his practice, his spare time is now spent writing/reviewing, choral singing, gardening and spending time with his wife and grown-up family.

Introduction; Part 1: Exploration; 1. History; 2. Willem Poppeliers - his influences and the origins of Sexual Grounding Therapy; Part 2: Comparison; Introduction to Part 2; 3. Mainstream psychotherapy and counselling; 4. Non-mainstream ways of working with sexuality and sexual issues; Part 3: The SGT model; Introduction to Part 3; 5. Revelation - the Oedipal stage; 6. Puberty and adolescence; 7. Adolescence to adulthood; 8. Adulthood towards ripening; 9. Ripening; 10. Ageing; 11. Leaving and dying; 12. The application of the model; 13. The organisation and delivery of SGT coursework - the safe container; Conclusion to Part 3; Part 4: Future perspective; 14. The present and future of the organisation; 15. The clinical future of SGT; 16. SGT in the world; 17. SGT and science; 18. Ending; Appendix: Further information and useful links