Passionate Marriage: Sex, Love, and Intimacy in Emotionally Committed Relationships / Edition 1

by David Schnarch PhD

Overview

A respectful, erotic, uplifting, and spiritual guide to sexual and emotional fulfillment.

Has sex with your partner become routine or unfulfilling? Can you say just what you want in bed or let your partner really see you during an orgasm? Spicing up your love life involves more than mood music and clever techniques. Every sexual exchange, from kissing to daring erotic behaviors, is a picture of your entire relationship—a reflection of how you and your partner feel about yourselves, and each other, outside the bedroom.

As renowned sex and marital therapist David Schnarch reveals in this revolutionary book, keeping passion and intimacy alive requires facing the anxiety of defining yourself while getting closer to your partner. Sexual encounters provide perfect opportunities to do this and to develop the strength to love deeply.

Mixing humor and compassion, Schnarch describes couples' explicit sexual encounters and dramatic therapy sessions to demonstrate how they found personal, marital, and sexual fulfillment far greater than they ever dreamed possible. He goes beyond simply curing sexual dysfunctions to help people achieve their sexual potential. In this invigorating look at adult sex, he seeks to bring out the best in each of us.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393040210
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	04/17/1997
Pages:	434
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 9.60(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

David Schnarch, PhD, a licensed clinical psychologist and certified sex therapist, directs the Marriage and Family Health Center in Evergreen, Colorado. He is the author of Constructing the Sexual Crucible and Resurrecting Sex.

Editorial Reviews

Living in a "dead" relationship? Want to make it more passionate? More intimate? More loving? Schnarch (Constructing the Sexual Crucible, Norton, 1991) takes the reader behind the scenes as couples describe similar feelings as well as their explicit sexual encounters during dramatic therapy sessions. The book is divided into three sections. The first section gives the reader a framework for understanding his or her existing relationship so that it can grow. The second section gives detailed instructions on ways to make sex better and more intimate. The last chapters show how sex and intimacy operate together in marriage. A potentially useful guide; recommended for larger well-circulating self-help collections.-Marty Dean Evensvold, Magnolia P.L., Tex.

Library Journal

The author is a clinical psychologist and a sex therapist. Using anecdote mixed with explanation, he teaches how to spark up marital sex life that has become routine or unfulfilling. The discussion goes beyond mood music and clever techniques to the dynamics<-->and the thrill<-->of learning how to communicate desires, standing close to a partner, and being prepared to self-soothe if hopes are not met. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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