Description
Sex, God, and the Conservative Church guides psychotherapy and sexology clinicians on how to treat clients who grew up in a conservative faith--mired in sexual shame and dysfunction--and who desire to both heal and hold on to their faith orientation. The author first walks clinicians and readers through a critique of Western culture and the conservative Christian Church, and their effects on intimate partnerships and sexual lives. The book provides clinicians a way to understand the faulty sexual ethic of the early church, while revealing the hidden mystical sex and body positive understanding of sexuality of the Hebrew people. The book also includes chapters on strategies for a new sexual ethic, on clinical steps to heal religious sexual shame, and on specific sex therapy interventions clinicians can use directly in their practice. Finally, it offers a four step model for healing religious sexual shame and actual touch and non-touch exercises to bring healing and intimacy into a person's life.
Author: Tina Schermer Sellers
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 04/21/2017
Pages: 186
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781138674981
ISBN10: 1138674982
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Psychotherapy | Couples & Family
- Psychology | Human Sexuality (see also Social Science | Human Sexuality)
- Psychology | Mental Health
About the Author
Tina Schermer Sellers, PhD, is a licensed marriage and family therapist and certified sex therapist, as well as a professor of sexuality and medical family therapy in the graduate Family Therapy Department at Seattle Pacific University.
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