Expanding the Practice of Sex Therapy: The Neuro Update Edition—An Integrative Approach for Exploring Desire and Intimacy, Edition 2

Gina Ogden

May 2018 · Routledge

About this ebook

The revised edition of this award-winning book offers thirty-three Neuro Updates, which provide evidence-based data to help you recognize and explain the deeply transformational nature of the work. Expanding the Practice of Sex Therapy looks beyond behavioral treatments, pharmaceutical interventions, and performance goals to a comprehensive picture of what your clients want and need when they enter sex therapy, and offers creative ways to engage your clients in their own therapeutic process, whether or not you are trained as a sex therapist. Central to Gina Ogden’s approach is her Four-Dimensional Wheel of Sexual Experience, an innovative template that recognizes the full range of sexual issues: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. The text is organized into five practice-oriented sections that introduce the 4-D Wheel; show you how you can use it with individuals, couples, and groups; and encourage you to explore it on your own.

About the author

Gina Ogden, PhD, LMFT, is an award-winning sex therapist, researcher, and founder of the 4-D Network for Body, Mind, Heart, and Spirit. She is the author of twelve books on sexuality and of the only national survey to investigate sexuality and spirituality. Her work is archived in the Kinsey Institute. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts (www.GinaOgden.com; www.4-DNetwork.com).