Intimacy – PsychologyTomorrowMagazine

Another Side of the Story

May 13, 2016 Alyssa Siegel 0

As therapists, we are taught to form a collaboration with a client free from bias; to dispel our own values, beliefs, and opinions in order to meet a client where he/she is, and to simply […]

Sex is far from the primitive, base instinct we are led to believe it is. It’s our most complicated human need. Whether in a casual encounter or a long relationship, through sex we communicate our […]

Twenty-somethings

December 24, 2014 Alyssa Siegel 5

I find it hard to believe on a regular basis that I am ten to fifteen years older than many of my clients. That when they look at me and talk to me, they see […] […]

Lifelong Puberties and Perpetual Pleasures

December 24, 2014 admin 0

‘[D]id we really believe we had discovered everything there is about the erotic universe? [T]he fleshy basis of all spiritual yearning that only an ever-deeper passion might awaken?’ As a non-yogic myself, I have to […] […]

Night Blood (Some adjustments midst life and death)

May 31, 2014 Bill Hayward 3

“I’m an object. An object dirty with blood. That creates other objects…” – Clarice Lispector, Augua Viva It is the best of times, it is the worst of times… It is the time of fulﬁllment, […] […]

Scenes From A Bed

May 31, 2014 Stanley Siegel 0

A bed is more than a place to rest our weary bodies or have sex with a loved one, casual friend or ourselves. A bed is where we encounter our most intimate relationship– the one […] […]

The Cuddler

May 31, 2014 Anonymous 1

Yes, I Paid a Woman to Cuddle With Me In my mind’s eye, I am backstage behind a curtain while Oprah tells her studio audience they are about to meet a man who paid a […] […]

Graceful Guidelines for Sexual Healing

May 31, 2014 admin 6

Most people in the “recovery” or “therapy” process yearn for sexual healing. I make this statement as a therapist and as a human being who has facilitated myself and many others on the journey. Sexual […] […]

Choreography of Tantra in Therapy

May 31, 2014 admin 8

The office doesn’t look quite like a regular therapist office. There are these interesting floor chairs in the corner of the room on a multi-colored tribal-looking rug. I smell something both sweet and musty at […] […]

Porn Lied To Me

May 30, 2014 admin 3

Porn and Co-dependency Porn and I go way back. It started out as an innocent flirtation, a schoolboy’s first crush. But it didn’t stay that way. At some point, porn and I started lying to […] […]