Sex in Psychotherapy: Sexuality, Passion, Love, and Desire in the Therapeutic Encounter

In this concise, lucid volume, influential psychotherapist Lawrence Hedges takes a psychodynamic approach to investigating major technological and theoretical developments in our understanding of sex’s role in therapy.

Lawrence E. Hedges, Ph.D. Psy.D., ABPP, is a psychologist-psychoanalyst specializing in psychoanalysis and long-term intensive psychotherapy, as well as the advanced training of psychotherapists. He holds teaching and supervising appointments at the Newport Psychoanalytic Institute, the California Graduate Institute, and the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, Irvine. He is author of numerous books and papers, including Listening Perspectives in Psychotherapy, Interpreting the Countertransference, Terrifying Transferences: Aftershocks of Childhood Trauma, and Facing the Challenge of Liability in Psychotherapy: Practicing Defensively. He is director of the Listening Perspectives Study Center and holds Diplomas from the American Board of Professional Psychology and the American Board of Forensic Examiners.