Body-to-body Intimacy: Transformation Through Love, Sex, and Neurobiology

Body-Based Intimacy is a manual written for couples’ and sex therapists advancing a ＂full-spectrum＂ approach to deep healing and relationship and sexual enhancement, through partners’ bodily attunement. Through a detailed description of interpersonal neurobiology and affect-regulation theory and research, illuminated by therapy vignettes, this book reveals the long-term effects of early attachment programming on shaping adult libido. It explores a variety of relational issues including trust issues, chronic conflict, jealousy, and betrayal, and sexual issues like differences in desire, orgasm or erection difficulties, and porn abuse. The final chapter includes a series of process-oriented exercises as handouts that therapists can utilize in their own practice.