Body-to-body intimacy : transformation through love, sex, and neurobiology

Description

Introduction: body-to-body intimacy-the link between couples and sex therapies -- Part 1 The problem-transformation spectrum: The problem: distress as a developmental opportunity -- Transitional resources: change as a body-based experiential process -- Transformation: restoring evolutionary progress -- Part II The attachment-sexuality spectrum: Attachment: the sensory links between love and libido -- Sexuality: sexual development, love, and lovemaking -- Part III The pain-pleasure spectrum: Pain: emotional healing awakens pleasure -- Pleasure: the transformative power of body-to-body intimacy -- Part IV The cognitive-somatic-experiential-behavioral spectrum -- Embodied relational sex therapyTM: a neurobiological- gestalt integration of couples and sex therapy -- Afterword -- Appendix: family closeness profile -- References -- Index.