Sensuality and Sexuality Across the Divide of Shame (Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series)

Placed in a historical context, sexuality was once so prominent in psychoanalytic writing that sexual drive and psychoanalysis were synonymous. The exciting discovery of childhood sexuality filled the literature. Then other discoveries came to the fore until sexuality slipped far in the background. This book revokes the excitement of the original discoveries of childhood sexual experience while linking childhood sensuality and sexuality to adult attachment, romantic, and lustful love. This revised perspective offers the general reader insight into contemporary psychoanalytic thought, and presents clinicians with a perspective for exploring their patients sensuality and sexuality with renewed interest and knowledge.Joseph D. Lichtenberg is the author of 'Sensuality and Sexuality Across the Divide of Shame (Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series)', published 2007 under ISBN 9780881634747 and ISBN 0881634743.