Psych links

[ironphoenix]

Two excellent links on psychotherapy for the rest of us:

The cover story from the current issue of Therapy Today: Su Connan's article, "A Kink in the Process."

The cover story from the current issue of Psychotherapy Networker: Tammy Nelson's article, "The New Monogamy."

Both of these are shining examples of well-considered, open-minded therapists thinking through how people can be different and still be okay, even if social stigmas might say otherwise.

Comments

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

I have to say, this sentence:

"It isn't that there's an epidemic of mate-swapping libertines out of Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, the iconographic '60s take on the theme. ..."

had me cracking up. We just watched that. It was...incredibly tame by today's standards. Those crazy libertines. The pairs of best friends that took a full movie to realize that they were important enough to each other to be worth sleeping together, and did so after lots of discussion and investigation and thinking about it. Epidemic, you say! Perhaps the movie was shocking in its day, but nowadays the intense titillation that the camera gives us around the 'orgy' scene was mostly amusing in its naivete.

Anyway. A clunker in the midst of an otherwise worthwhile article, and perhaps one which says something about how and when the writer first encountered it.

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen it myself, but I can easily imagine what you describe!

You may be right... apparently the author is a therapist of many years' experience who seems to have worked this stuff out for herself.

[ancalagon-tb.livejournal.com]

good articles, worth passing on.

There are still a lot of therapists who don't really know how to deal with kink unfortunately...