Sex, God, and the Conservative Church

Sex, God, and the Conservative Church guides psychotherapy and sexology clinicians on how to treat clients who grew up in a conservative faith-mired in sexual shame and dysfunction-and who desire to both heal and hold on to their faith orientation.

Tina Schermer Sellers, PhD, is a licensed marriage and family therapist and certified sex therapist, as well as a professor of sexuality and medical family therapy in the graduate Family Therapy Department at Seattle Pacific University.

Acknowledgements  Introduction  1. Christianity and Sex: What's Going On?  2. How Did Christian Sexuality Get Derailed?  3. American Consumerism  4. Hope for Clients: The Lost Message of a Sex-Positive God  5. In Pursuit of a Sex Positive-Gospel: Strategies for a New Sexual Ethic  6. Clinical Applications: Four Steps to Healing Religious Sexual Shame  7. Sex Therapy Interventions: The Anatomy of Intimacy  8. Sex Therapy Interventions: The Practices of Intimacy  Epilogue: Are You a Renegade Therapist?