Body-to-Body Intimacy

This book presents an integrative, growth-oriented approach to therapy with couples that demonstrates the dynamic interplay between partners' emotional issues and their sexual difficulties.

Stella Resnick, PhD, is a clinical psychologist specializing in couples' sex therapy in Beverly Hills, California. She is an AASECT-certified sex therapist and supervisor who trains therapists and leads couples retreats at Esalen Institute and other centers around the United States and abroad.

Introduction: Body-to-Body Intimacy-The Link Between Couples and Sex Therapies Part I: The Problem-Transformation Spectrum 1. The Problem: Distress as a Developmental Opportunity 2. Transitional Resources: Change as a Body-Based Experiential Process 3. Transformation: Restoring Evolutionary Progress Part II: The Attachment-Sexuality Spectrum 4. Attachment: The Sensory Links Between Love and Libido 5. Sexuality: Sexual Development, Love, and Lovemaking Part III: The Pain-Pleasure Spectrum 6. Pain: Emotional Healing Awakens Pleasure 7. Pleasure: The Transformative Power of Body-to-Body Intimacy Part IV: The Cognitive-Somatic-Experiential-Behavioral Spectrum 8. Embodied Relational Sex TherapyTM: A Neurobiological-Gestalt Integration of Couples and Sex Therapy Afterword Appendix: Family Closeness Profile