Sensate Focus in Sex Therapy: The Illustrated Manual

Sensate Focus in Sex Therapy is an illustrated manual that provides mental health professionals with information about the use and application of the structured touching opportunities referred to as Sensate Focus. Sexologists regularly use Sensate Focus to remediate their clients’ sexual disorders (Sensate Focus 1) and enhance intimate relationships (Sensate Focus 2). This book is the only one to: vividly describe and illustrate the specific steps of, activities involved in, and positions associated with Sensate Focus; emphasize the accurate but often misrepresented purpose of Sensate Focus, which is a mindfulness-based practice of being in the present moment in one’s own experience rather than a goal-directed experience of pleasuring self or partner; discuss how modifications to Sensate Focus can be applied to diverse populations; and distinguish between the purposes of Sensate Focus 1 and Sensate Focus 2.