Sensuality and Sexuality Across the Divide of Shame

Placed in a historical context sexuality was once so prominent inpsychoanalytic writing that sexual drive and psychoanalysis were synonymous.The exciting discov... » 

Placed in a historical context sexuality was once so prominent inpsychoanalytic writing that sexual drive and psychoanalysis were synonymous.The exciting discovery of childhood sexuality filled the literature. Then otherdiscoveries came to the fore until sexuality slipped far in the background.This book evokes the excitement of the original discoveries of childhood sexualexperience while linking childhood sensuality and sexuality to adultattachment romantic and lustful love. This revised perspective offers thegeneral reader insight into contemporary psychoanalytic thought and presentsclinicians with a perspective for exploring their patients sensuality andsexuality with renewed interest and knowledge. «