Sexuality and Attachment in Clinical Practice

Joseph Schwartz is a training therapist and supervisor at the Bowlby Centre. He worked for over fifteen years in mental health research before becoming a clinician. He is the author of numerous papers on clinical practice, the history of psychoanalysis, and the lack of a role of genetics in mental distress. He has also written numerous books including 'Einstein for Beginners'. He currently lives in London with his partner and two children. Kate White is a training therapist, supervisor and teacher at The Bowlby Centre. Formerly senior lecturer at South Bank University in the Department of Nursing and Community Health Studies, she has used her extensive experience in adult education to contribute to the innovative psychotherapy curriculum developed at The Bowlby Centre. In addition to working as an individual psychotherapist, Kate runs workshops on the themes of attachment and trauma in clinical practice.

'This enchanting book, packed with contemporary psychoanalytic insight, will be indispensable reading to all those seeking a fuller understanding of passion, hidden sexual longings, fantasies, fears and hopes as they manifest themselves in day-to-day life as well as in the consulting room. Kate White and Joseph Schwartz present to the reader a state-of-the-art edited volume in which sexuality becomes appropriately recognized, akin to attachment, as a core human characteristic from the cradle to the grave. The contributing authors are authoritative leaders in the field of relational psychoanalysis. Graduate students in clinical trainings, as well as their mentors, will find much here to discuss, reflect upon, and be enriched by. At the same time, this book offers the possibility of a deepened psychoanalytic understanding of sexuality to a wide readership, including anyone involved in providing (or seeking) sex education or sex therapy as well as the "love researchers".'- Howard Steele, PhD, Associate Professor, Psychology Department at Graduate Faculty, New School University, NY; Editor, Attachment and Human Development

• Introduction to the monograph of The John Bowlby Memorial Conference 2004 -- Attachment Theory and The John Bowlby Memorial Lecture -- "Such stuff as dreams are made on": sexuality as re/creation -- Clinical implications of queer theory -- Attachment and sexuality -- Reflections on the role of frustration or aggression in sexual pleasure from an attachment point of view -- Masculinity and sexuality in therapeutic work with male survivors of childhood sexual abuse -- The John Bowlby Memorial Conference 2004 -- Introduction to The Centre for Attachment-based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy