Treating Sexual Shame
A New Map for Overcoming Dysfunction, Abuse, and Addiction
By (author) Anne Stirling Hastings
Publication date:
01 January 1998Length of book:
332 pagesPublisher
Jason Aronson, Inc.ISBN-13: 9780765701039
In therapy, as in the world at large, sexuality is different from other issues because of the culturally imposed secrecy and shame that inhibit open, non-defended talk about it. Anne Stirling Hastings, Ph.D., who specializes in treating the overlapping sexual problems of abuse, addiction, and dysfunction, encourages clinicians to recognize and overcome their own shame as a precondition to eliciting and advancing their clients' awareness.
It is so refreshing to read a book about healing and sexuality without needing to change the gender of the people in the case examples or experience myself and my clients as invisible. For Dr. Hastings, heterosexual herself, healthy human sexuality clearly and overtly includes gay and lesbian relationship. Treating Sexual Shame brings new light and perspectives to sex and sexuality that will inform and benefit any therapist and all clients, gay and heterosexual alike.