Main description:

This book is a selection of papers from the eleventh John Bowlby Memorial Conference. It covers the themes of sexuality and attachment, providing from a historical overview through intricate theoretical pathways to vivid descriptions to both analyst and analysand of a therapeutic relationship.

Contents:

Introduction to the monograph of The John Bowlby Memorial Conference 2004 -- Attachment Theory and The John Bowlby Memorial Lecture -- "Such stuff as dreams are made on": sexuality as re/creation -- Clinical implications of queer theory -- Attachment and sexuality -- Reflections on the role of frustration or aggression in sexual pleasure from an attachment point of view -- Masculinity and sexuality in therapeutic work with male survivors of childhood sexual abuse -- The John Bowlby Memorial Conference 2004 -- Introduction to The Centre for Attachment-based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy