By Gale Holtz Golden
Written in a first-person, narrative sort, within the Grip of wish supplies either the pro and lay reader the infrequent chance to event the sequestered international of the therapist as she works with those who have sexual secrets and techniques and behaviors. Referencing the tutorial literature and learn, utilizing wealthy case fabric, and a large use of literary references, the booklet unpretentiously demonstrates the fundamental ideas and concerns in treating compelling and felony sexual behaviors. The booklet additionally deals a uniquely jargon-free, human view of the topic. Golden compassionately and non-judgmentally speaks to the universality of the adventure of sexual obsessions and compelling sexual behaviors and their influence on relationships, households, and society.
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Sam is an example. He was in his 50s and had worked hard and long at containing his desire for orgasms. When I met him, he had cultivated a technique of keeping himself in a state of anticipatory pleasure for hours while he cruised the Internet for particular combinations of men and women having group sex. He would alternate between Becoming transparent 15 the erotic site on the screen and the weather report, thus delaying his orgasm for a long time. After a prolonged period of arousal, he would allow himself to ejaculate.
It haunts my dreams. Becoming transparent 11 David’s dilemmas and David’s questions The questions David threw at me are not easy ones, but their themes are common to most of my clients. I hear the deep insecurities and the need for acceptance that are the subtext to most of the questions. Sexual behaviors are often used to “medicate” bad feelings. The therapist needs to follow those feelings right down the yellow brick road. “Why me? Do I really need treatment? ” David asked these questions, hoping I might join with him in his denial.
Many of my clients are very surprised to find that others have the same issues. ” I’m not sure I believe in hell, but I often think that it must be something like what we experience when we yearn for Becoming transparent 17 answers when there are none: Why did I get cancer? Why doesn’t my husband love me? Why can’t I stop cheating on my wife? “Hell is made up of yearnings. They don’t roast on a bed of nails; they sit on comfortable chairs and are tortured by yearnings” (Singer, 1979). To get back to David, he was sure that no one, particularly Anne or I, could possibly understand what he was going through.