Sex in Psychotherapy takes a psychodynamic approach to understanding recent technological and theoretical shifts in the field of psychotherapy. Lawrence Hedges provides an expert overview and analysis of a wide variety of new perspectives on sex, sexuality, gender, and identity; new theories about sex’s role in therapy; and new discoveries about the human brain and how it works. Therapists will value Hedges’s unique insights into the role of sexuality in therapy, which are grounded in the author’s studies of neurology, the history of sexuality, transference, resistance, and countertransference. Clinicians will also appreciate his provocative analyses of influential perspectives on sex, gender, and identity, and his lucid, concrete advice on the practice of therapeutic listening.

Sex in Psychotherapy

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Hedges, Lawrence E.

Mental Health

Routledge

How can therapists treat patients' primitive anxieties and overwhelming terrors that are not accessible to verbal interpretation or insight? In psychotherapy the traumas suffered in infancy are often reawakened, and reexperienced in the safety of the therapeutic relationship. While they desperately seek attachment, their experience of connection is one of violation and humiliation. Their ways of attaching are at the center of what terrifies patients with early trauma and, in a successful therapy, they structure the development of the transference and come also to terrify the analyst. The therapist is confronted with humiliation and abuse from patients, who find behavioral ways to communicate their histories. These patients require a special connection, a new relational experience, before they can learn new relational paradigms. This book shows therapists how to understand the process of trauma re-creation, and move with the client through the reexperiencing of the early physical pain and psychological terror and the blaming of the therapist.

Terrifying Transferences: Aftershocks of Childhood Trauma

Jason Aronson, Inc.

In this litigious age, all psychotherapists must protect themselves against the possibility of legal action; malpractice insurance is insufficient and does not begin to address the complexity and the enormity of this critical problem. In this book, Dr. Lawrence E. Hedges urges clinicians to practice defensively and provides a course of action that equips them to do so. After working with over a hundred psycho-therapists and attorneys who have fought unwarranted legal and ethical complaints from clients, he has made the fruits of his work available to all therapists. In addition to identifying those patients prone to presenting legal problems, Dr. Hedges provides a series of consent forms (included in the book and on the accompanying disk), a compelling rationale for using them, and a means of easily introducing them into clinical practice. This book is a wake–up call, a practical, clinically sound response to a frightening reality, and an absolute necessity for all therapists in practice today.

Facing the Challenge of Liability in Psychotherapy: Practicing Defensively

Facing the Challenge of Liability in Psychotherapy offers ways for therapists of all persuasions to limit liability while continuing to practice effectively. Dr Hedges demonstrates how therapists can put themselves in a position to defend their practices if ever called on to do so; by developing a series of informed consents covering different situations, by learning how to document ordinary as well as critical incidents, by seeking out peer and expert opinion, and by using community resources as appropriate. Most importantly, Dr. Hedges points out the kinds of clinical and dynamic situations that typically lead to complaints and false accusations against therapists. This updated edition addresses three new major areas of concern―work with minors, child custody evaluations, and compliance with the new federal HIPPA regulations. A freshly revised CD-Rom accompanies the book with 30 forms that can be downloaded and adapted.

Psychology & Counseling

Hedges argues that countertransference responsiveness is the key to understanding issues of attachment and separation between patient and therapist. Hedges shows therapists how to interpret their countertransference to the patient in a way that enhances therapeutic progress. This book defines a challenge to psychotherapists to find support within the community of analysts who are available for consultation in teasing out their countertransference entanglements.

Interpreting the Countertransference

Various psychological approaches possess differential effectiveness in bringing into focus different aspects of the human developmental experience. The major psychological schools can thus be viewed as Listening Perspectives for grasping unique and private experience which is, to a greater or lesser extent, characteristic of various levels or stages of development of the human relatedness potential. This book illustrates four distinctly different styles of listening that have emerged in psychoanalysis. It will survey the contributions of many and explore the possibilities of each Listening Perspective as a separate mode of psychoanalytic inquiry.

Listening Perspectives in Psychotherapy

Various psychological approaches possess differential effectiveness in bringing into focus different aspects of the human developmental experience. The major psychological schools can thus be viewed as "Listening Perspectives" for grasping unique and private experience which is, to a greater or lesser extent, characteristic of various levels or stages of development of the human relatedness potential. This book illustrates four distinctly different styles of listening that have emerged in psychoanalysis. It will survey the contributions of many and explore the possibilities of each Listening Perspective as a separate mode of psychoanalytic inquiry.

Many clinicians dread working with individuals diagnosed as borderline, bipolar, schizophrenic, psychotic, and character disordered. Often labeled as “high risk” or “difficult,” these relational problems and their interpersonal manifestations often require long and intense transformative therapy. In this book Dr. Hedges explains how to address the nature of personality organization in order to flow with -- and eventually to enjoy -- working at early developmental levels. Dr. Hedges speaks to the client’s engagement/disengagement needs, using a relational process-oriented approach, so the therapist can gauge how much and what kind of therapy can be achieved at any point and time.

Relational Interventions: Treating Borderline, Bipolar, Schizophrenic, Psychotic, and Characterolgical Personality Organization

Listening Perspectives

It has now become clear that Cumulative Developmental Trauma is universal. That is to say, there is no way to grow up and walk the planet without being repeatedly swallowed up by emotional and relational demands from other people. When we become confused, frightened, and overwhelmed our conscious and unconscious minds seek remedies to deal with the situation. Unfortunately, many of the solutions developed in response to intrusive events turn into habitual fear reflexes that get in our way later in life, giving rise to post-traumatic stress and relational inhibitions. This book is about freeing ourselves from the cumulative effects of our life's many relational traumas and the after-effects of those traumas that continue to constrict our capacities for creative, spontaneous, and passionate living.

Facing Our Cumulative Developmental Trauma: An Interpersonal/Relational Approach

Freud's singular stroke of genius can be simply stated: When we engage with someone in an emotionally intimate relationship, the deep unconscious emotional/relational habits of both participants become interpersonally engaged and enacted thereby making them potentially available for notice, discussion, transformation, and expansion. This is the 20th book in a series authored and edited by Dr. Lawrence Hedges establishing and expanding Relational Listening Perspectives. This Handbook surveys a massive clinical research project extending over 45 years and participated in by more than 400 psychotherapists in case conferences, reading groups and seminars at the Listening Perspectives Study Center and the Newport Psychoanalytic Institute in the Southern California area.

Relational Listening: A Handbook: Cross-Culturally Resonant Gateways into Human Relational Experience

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Sex in Psychotherapy

Terrifying Transferences: Aftershocks of Childhood Trauma

Facing the Challenge of Liability in Psychotherapy: Practicing Defensively

Facing the Challenge of Liability in Psychotherapy: Practicing Defensively

Interpreting the Countertransference

Listening Perspectives in Psychotherapy

Listening Perspectives in Psychotherapy

Relational Interventions: Treating Borderline, Bipolar, Schizophrenic, Psychotic, and Characterolgical Personality Organization

Facing Our Cumulative Developmental Trauma: An Interpersonal/Relational Approach

Relational Listening: A Handbook: Cross-Culturally Resonant Gateways into Human Relational Experience