Working with Sexual Feelings in the Consulting Room
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Most therapists will be aware of sexual feelings in their therapeutic
work with clients. Some therapists will see frame this as erotic
transference or counter transference and perhaps not be willing to see
any here and now erotic feelings as belonging to them and the client.
Sexual feelings may emanate only from the client, but most of us will
recognise our own feelings of attraction to some clients from time to
time. Rarely are therapists taught to work with these issues, and
often therapists find it difficult taking such complex feelings to
supervision. It may be particularly difficult to seek consultation on such feelings
if one is a gay male therapist due to societal projections on to gay
men as "hypersexual" and "predatorily seductive."
This workshop will explore sexual attraction and erotic feelings,
whether 'real' or transference based and how one can work with them
ethically and professionally. There is tremendous therapeutic potential
in being able to work creatively with such feelings.
Dominic Davies and Leah Davidson will be co-facilitating a workhop on this topic on Saturday June 9 from 1-7pm in Central London. To download a flyer for this workshop, please click here.
Alternatively, you can find out more from the training section of the website.
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Information Volunteer/Researcher Wanted
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 We're looking for a volunteer to help update our Resources section on the website. We're wanting to expand and develop the self-help resources (books and website listings). We need someone with accurate typing skills. Much of this work can be done at home in your own time if that suits.
We will cover expenses and lunches when/if you need to work at Pink Therapy HQ.
If you want to improve your own knowledge about the wide range of useful self-help books that exist to support sexual minority clients and to assist the profession by helping us to disseminate this knowledge then please get in touch with Dominic via email: info@pinktherapy.com
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| Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis Conference |
 Last month, for some unknown reason the link to the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis's conference on 19 May failed to work.
If you are interested in knowing more about this event, We're including the link again: The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis conference information hopefully this will work this time. |
Feeling Generous?
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 It's likely that many of you who are working with trans and gender variant people with know something of the work of Press for Change. They are the leading political lobbying and educational organisation working to bring about change for al trans people.
Their website is a vast respository of interesting and useful information not only to trans people but those of us who are working with them. They also produce extremely valuable e-news bulletins.
As a campaigning organisation they are unable to register as a charity and therefore many of the usual fund-raising channels are closed to them. The are currently appealing for funds. Whilst the have until now relied entirely on volunteers working on a shoestring budget, they are at the stage where they need to employ a member of staff to take their work forward. When one see's the list of acheivements they've made over the past few years and compares it to a large well funded campaigning organisation like Stonewall, one can't fail to be impressed.
If you were interested in making a donation to their work, it would certainly make a difference!
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BY CHEQUE : In the UK you can simply write a cheque in favour of Press for Change and send it to our main address:
Press for Change, BM Network, London WC1N 3XX
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