Chapter 9: Sexual Orientations and Identity
The chapter situates sexual orientation within a broad, relational field, arguing that desire organizes relational life and self-formation while unfolding inside sociocultural norms.
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Chapter 10: The Contact Process as a Cure for Broken Links
The chapter clarifies “contact” in Gestalt therapy by distinguishing it from connection and relationship
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Chapter 11: Aggression as Invasion, Violence, and Destructiveness
This chapter repositions aggression within Gestalt therapy as a boundary phenomenon with distinct forms—invasion, violence, and destructiveness—rather than a synonym for cruelty
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Chapter 12: Aggression and Intentionality
The chapter situates sexuality within Gestalt theory as a need for contact and exchange—linked to excitement and pleasure—whose orientation arises from intentionality co-created with the environment.
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Chapter 13: The Forms of Aggression
The chapter maps five embodied forms of aggression as contact functions that organize how we take from, refuse, or exchange with the environment—each with distinct roles for sexuality and clinical work.
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Chapter 14: Sexual Aggression
This chapter defines sexual aggression as a distinct, evolved form of aggression that emerges when sexuality (fusion, pleasure, care) and aggression (initiative, boundary-setting, force) shift from polar opposites to a figure/ground relationship.
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Chapter 15: Sexual Disorders as Disturbances of Sexual Aggression
This chapter reframes “sexual disorders” not through DSM labels…
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Chapter 16: Perineum and Soul
This chapter weaves a clinician’s memoir with a field guide to pelvic-floor rehabilitation viewed through a Gestalt lens.
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Chapter 17: Other Love — Paraphilias
The chapter reframes paraphilias as diverse erotic styles that may be healthy, conflicted, or delinquent depending on consent, harm, and the field in which they occur.
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Operational Appendix: What Is Consent
This appendix offers a clear, practice-oriented guide to sexual consent for educators and partners.
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