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Mar 13, 2012 •
Smarter Sex can Change Your Life Stanley Siegel is a psychotherapist, an international lecturer, and the former director of education and senior faculty member of New York’s renowned Ackerman Institute for Family Therapy. His Latest book release, Your Brain on Sex: How Smarter Sex Can Change Your Life, takes the reader on a journey through...
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Mar 12, 2012 •
Mr Siegel and I have been been continuing a conversation over several years about his ideas. I will be posting some excerpts from our conversations about Commitment over the next few weeks (March 2012). The photographs shown here are by Ryan McGinley. - Sheila Heti, The Believer Logger...Read More
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Mar 10, 2012 •
Early in my career I immersed myself in the then emerging theories referred to as Family Systems Therapy, with teachings from professionals such as Murray Bowen, Carl Whittaker, Jay Haley and Nathan Ackerman, who themselves had rebelled against the tenants of traditional psychotherapy. They shared the premise that an individualâs âproblem,â rather than being purely...
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Mar 10, 2012 •
Frank Commentary from a Retired Call Girl with Maggie NcNiell. Our civilisation cannot afford to let the censor-moron loose. The censor-moron does not really hate anything but the living and growing human consciousness. – D.H. Lawrence Last Saturday I interviewed Stanley Siegel, LCSW, a psychotherapist, lecturer and author whose popular sex blog Intelligent Lust was...
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Feb 21, 2012 •
STANLEY SIEGEL UNCENSORED: The Shared Values and Techniques of Therapists and Sex Workers. âSex Worker or Therapist?â was censored by Psychology Today on February 21 and never appeared online. Several years ago, a 62-year-old man had a consultation with me a few months after good friends had conducted, let’s say, an intervention on his behalf. Andrew...
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Feb 13, 2012 •
STANLEY SIEGEL UNCENSORED: The Truth About How We Feel About Penises. âPenis Envyâ was published February 14 on PsychologyToday.com and removed two weeks later. The center of a manâs existence is his penis. At the root of his self-worth is how he feels about the size of his penis and what he thinks about its ability...
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Feb 7, 2012 •
Gay, straight, it just doesn’t matter anymore. Heterosexuality is not what it’s cut out to be. The labels that exist to describe us typically fall short of encompassing the fullness of human sexuality. Some years ago a patient came to me to deal with his sexual identity issues. When I asked James to describe his...