Product Description

New Directions in Sex Therapy: Innovations and Alternatives focuses on cutting-edge therapy paradigms as alternatives to conventional sex therapy and expands the definition of the field. Replete with helpful clinical illustrations to demonstrate these new approaches in action, this book is intended for anyone who deals with sexual issues and concerns in therapy, clinicians of every kind, in addition to sex therapists.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #213792 in Books
• Published on: 2001-03-16
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 1.48 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 416 pages

Review
excellently edited... experienced professionals...[will] find some truly new ideas. And, in any case, having this broad range of issues, of varying degrees of 'newness', all in a single volume is undoubtedly useful.
–Sexual and Relationship Therapy, Vol. 17, No.4, 2002

New Directions is a well-organized, bold, and important book that promises up-to-date coverage of the theoretical and research literature in the field of sex therapy. The contributors provide formidable challenges to reductive, biomedical explanations of clients' sexual and intimacy-related concerns, and they offer many practical, insightful, and helpful suggestions. At the same time, however, none of the contributors succomb to offering 'cookbook' type solutions. Thus New Directions should enjoy a wide readership--it is highly relevant to experienced sex therapists, but it would also be a valuable resource for counselors who have a more general practice and want to incorporate a relational and contextual understanding of sexuality into their clinical work. . . . A must read for mental health professionals working with clients who have sexual concerns.
–Psychotherapy: Theory / Research / Practice / Training, 2003

This collection of provocative, solid, and carefully crafted essays examines the possibilities of helping people find sexual passion. New Directions in Sex Therapy, complete with a 20-page Index, makes a major contribution. Professional sex therapists and people naive about the field will all find this collection a valuable and (intellectually) stimulating resource.
–AHP Perspectives, October 2003

Book Info
(Brunner-Routledge) Univ. of Ottowa, Canada. Clinical guide to practicing innovative sex therapy. Offers options for the treatment of sex abuse victims, often the most challenging of patients. Also offers guidelines for working with experiential, integrative/eclectic, systemic, common factors, narrative therapy and feminist therapy models.