Quickies: The Handbook of Brief Sex Therapy

Quickies demonstrates that the best sex therapy is often the briefest, presenting readers with a refreshing array of time-efficient, client-focused approaches to sexual problems. The third edition includes new chapters on the impact of the Internet in relationships, infidelity, and same-sex and transgender affirming therapy.

About the Author :
Douglas Flemons, PhD, LMFT, is Co-Director of Context Consultants, Professor Emeritus of Family Therapy and Former Co-Director of the Office of Suicide and Violence Prevention at Nova Southeastern University. and a Clinical Fellow and Approved Supervisor in the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT). For more than thirty years, he has devoted himself to developing—through his practice, research, teaching, supervision, and writing—a relational approach to hypnotherapy and brief therapy. Currently in private practice in Asheville, North Carolina, he regularly offers hypnotherapy workshops and international trainings. Shelley Green, PhD, LMFT, is Co-Director of Context Consultants, Professor Emeritus of Family Therapy and Founding Director of Equine Assisted Family Therapy at Nova Southeastern University, and a Clinical Fellow and Approved Supervisor in the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT). She is coeditor with Douglas Flemons of Quickies: The Handbook of Brief Sex Therapy and author of numerous articles in the areas of sexuality, equine assisted psychotherapy, and clinical training and supervision.

Review :
Communicates, explains, and shares hot button topics of human sexuality in ways that are entertaining, educating, and meaningful. . . . [I]t has earned its place on the shelf of the psychological zeitgeist.-- "Somatic Psychotherapy Today" Gathering some of the best minds in brief sex therapy, Green and Flemons offer an impressive collection of efficient approaches to the wide range of sexual problems that can arise between couples, all while respecting their unique cultural, contextual, and sexual experiences. Their book should be required reading for every clinician.-- "Psych Central" Geared towards students and practitioners in brief sex therapy, the third edition of this book is an essential tool and reference work. . . [This book] has eight new chapters along with significant updating of those chapters from the previous editions.-- "American Reference Books Annual" There are numerous reasons to recommend this book to sex therapists as well as other practitioners who seek additional training regarding sexuality issues. The book includes chapters individually authored by experts in the field that focus on the theories of brief therapies and how these theories can best be applied to working systemically with clients who present with sexuality concerns...While the book is advertised as being a handbook of "Brief Sex Therapy," in reality the book would also be useful to practitioners who espouse both brief and more insight-focused long-term approaches. While not always identified as such, many of the chapter authors are closely aligned to Feminist approaches as well as Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT), and the reminders regarding the importance of paying attention to client language, experiences, context, points of view, and values are essential for therapists of all persuasions. I appreciated the reminders in each and every chapter about intersectionality and the diversity of experiences our clients have across and within groups.-- "Journal of Marital and Family Therapy" Good sex has never seemed so complex and elusive. Thankfully, the Quickies 3 therapist-authors share inspiring and creative clinical wisdom in responding to everything form "bad orgasms" through overcoming porn and infidelity, to finding intimacies despite cross-cultural and gender-fluid differences, and even addressing sexual violence. Drawing from brief approaches to relational therapy, this book teems with helpful ideas and humane practices for addressing today's diverse challenges to intimacy.--Tom Strong, University of Calgary Like a good relationship, Quickies has just gotten better and better. Whether you own the prior editions, or are entirely new to the volume, this book is a great resource.--Scott D. Miller, PhD, Director, International Center for Clinical Excellence Psychotherapists need strategies for addressing the panoply of sexual issues that clients present. Quickies combines useful applications with clear theoretical principles. Topics include cross-cultural perspectives, violence, infidelity, pornography, and LGBTQ relationships. This synergistic assembly of expert voices is a classic text that should be a standard reference on the bookshelf of every clinician.--Jeffrey K. Zieg, PhD, The Milton H. Erickson Foundation