Overcoming Anxiety in Sex and Relationships - Paula Leech

Overcoming Anxiety in Sex and Relationships

A Comprehensive Guide to Intimate and Emotional Freedom

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
308 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-43839-9 (ISBN)
33,65 inkl. MwSt
This book gives readers an accessible and comprehensive understanding of how anxiety, stress, and pressure can have a profound impact on pleasure, connection, and sexual functioning, offering practical tips and techniques for resolving common sexual struggles.

Anxiety can influence a multitude of aspects that make us who we are, changing how we move through, make meaning of, and interact with the world around us. Paula Leech begins by defining anxiety and how it affects our physiology before guiding readers to identify some of the primary sources of anxiety in their lives, such as family, gender, culture, religion, relationship dynamics, and sexual trauma. Encouraging clients to take responsibility, she offers alternative ways of conceptualizing and defining sex, sexuality, sexual values, and a client’s ongoing sexual development as a way of addressing some of the emotional, social, and psychological barriers to intimacy. Practical and engaging, this book includes mindfulness and embodiment exercises to help clients release stored tension, work through specific sexual struggles and “dysfunctions,” and deepen their connections with their body.

This guide is essential reading for established and training sex therapists as well as for those who experience anxiety-based sexual challenges with their partner.

Paula Leech, LMFT, CST-S, is a certified sex therapist who has worked with individuals, relationships, and families in private practice for over 10 years. She mentors sex therapists-in-training, and teaches at various institutes across the US and Canada.

Introduction: What Sex Asks from Us

Part 1: Anxiety and Sex

1 What is Anxiety?

2 Sex as Natural Function

3 Physiology and Sexual Functioning (Vaguely Defined)

4 Performance, Goal Orientation, Strive Mindset

5 Mind/Body Connection and Disconnection

6 Emotion, Prediction, and Association

7 Putting it All Together: A Word About Pleasure

Part 2: What is My Anxiety Trying to Teach Me?

8 Arrested Development

9 Family Matters

10 Your Relationships

11 Disconnection

“What Did My Ancestors Hope for Me?” Serena Payan-Hazelwood, MAIS, CSE

12 Insecurity and Confidence (Your Relationship to You)

Gay Men and Body Categorization/Celebration, Dr. Israel Martinez, LCSW, CST

13 Sexual Prowess and Inexperience

14 Sex and Aging, Sex and Death, Grief in Sex

15 Sexual Trauma

Racism, Trauma, Worthiness, and Sexuality, Dr. Candice Hargons

16 Sex as Pathology (Fantasy, Porn, Kink)

Kink as Shame, Kink as Cure, Abbie Nederhoed, LCSW

17 Sex “Addiction”

Part 3: Divorcing Anxiety from Your Sex Life: Actionable Steps

18 Taking Responsibility

19 Identifying and Managing Distancing Strategies

20 Mindfulness and Sensate Focus

21 Basic Practice

22 Advanced Practice: Erectile Dysfunction and Vaginismus

Conclusion: Trust Fall

Erscheint lt. Verlag 8.10.2024
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-032-43839-8 / 1032438398
ISBN-13 978-1-032-43839-9 / 9781032438399
Zustand Neuware
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