Constance Avery-Clark, Linda Weiner – Sensate Focus in Sex Therapy – The Illustrated Manual

Constance Avery-Clark, Linda Weiner – Sensate Focus in Sex Therapy – The Illustrated Manual

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What Is Sensate Focus?
SENSATE FOCUS IS THE FOUNDATION OF SEX THERAPY
It’s been around for a long time. Some 50 years or more. Most sex therapists have heard of it. Many other therapists know it sounds familiar. It may ring a bell for you. But what is Sensate Focus? Sensate Focus is a sex therapy technique that is very simply this: mindfulness practice using touch. This short article written by my colleague and I will help explain further.

What The Manual Offers
The Co-Directors of the Institute for Sexual & Relationship Therapy & Training (Linda Weiner, LCSW, and Constance Avery-Clark, Ph.D.) announce the Routledge publication of the first reader-friendly illustrated manual showing how to do the mindful touch exercises called Sensate Focus, a foundation of sex therapy. It uses artful drawings and descriptive text. Sensate Focus in Sex Therapy: The Illustrated Manual helps therapists, their clients, and the general public use touching to resolve sexual concerns and optimize intimate satisfaction. It represents the fulfillment of William Masters and Virginia Johnson’s intention to publish a detailed account of the steps involved in Sensate Focus. It has been updated for use in the more diversified world.

Reviewers suggest, “This book is long overdue! It is a rich treasure.” In an era of increasing medicalization, the manual’s “whole-person approach – the emphasis on touching as essential to human thriving – are messages that make this book invaluable.” “Weiner and Avery-Clark refresh and revitalize this formidable tool [Sensate Focus], and apply the lens of mindfulness to understanding the power of this practice.” It “will instantly become a classic.”

Sensate Focus in Sex Therapy: The Illustrated Manual covers:

Why does mindfully touching help with intimacy and sexual problems?
The critical attitudes: touching for your interest vs. for partner pleasure
The steps for doing Sensate Focus
Common problems and their management
Using Sensate Focus with diverse groups
As former Research and Clinical Associates at Masters & Johnson Institute, Ms. Weiner and Dr. Avery-Clark each have over 30 years’ experience treating intimacy and sexual concerns. They founded the Institute for Sexual & Relationship Therapy & in response to the need for a collaborative organization of sex education, therapy, and multidisciplinary training of educators, clinicians, therapists and allied medical professionals.