[PDF] The Deep Psychology Of Bdsm And Kink eBook

Author : Douglas Thomas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 40,75 MB
Release : 2023-09-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1000937089

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This fascinating volume investigates how the concept of soul is connected to BDSM and kink, exploring the world of alternative sexualities through the psychology of C. G. Jung and James Hillman as readers are guided on a provocative and lively journey through darker aspects of the sexual imagination. Contextualized both in sexual history and contemporary events, the book unveils surprising points of correspondence between the tortured fantasy-images of Jung’s The Red Book and the modern world of BDSM and describes from Hillman’s psychology a soul-centered perspective that affirms the psychological value of fantasy-images animating our human lives. The book also considers the collective archetypal sources of historical trauma which have provided inspiration to some of the more disquieting aspects of BDSM and details how the deep psychology of BDSM creates a space in the modern world to ethically engage these practices. Kinksters and BDSM practitioners will discover a psychological language that clarifies and affirms why these activities and relationships can be so intensely intimate, pleasurable, and transformative. Psychotherapists and enthusiasts of Jungian and archetypal psychology will find fresh insights here that support the practice of BDSM as a form of individuation and a path for bringing soul into the world.

Author : Douglas Thomas
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,72 MB
Release : 2023-09-20
Category : Bondage (Sexual behavior)
ISBN : 9781032122076

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- an important topic to publish on as kink and BDSM have been historically stigmatized by many mental health professionals - fills market gap on psychology of BDSM and kink

Author : Sin
Publisher :
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 19,60 MB
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781790861194

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Why do we enjoy adult games? What drives our sexual urges, fantasies and libidos? What motivates us to indulge in domination and submission play? What makes us sadistic or masochistic? Why do we like to tie our partners, or be restrained ourselves? With so many becoming increasingly interested to enter the kink, fetish, sadomasochism and rope bondage; Kinbaku/Shibari scenes, The Psychology of BDSM & Rope Bondage explores who we are, why we seek these adventures, dangers and warning signs, advice and techniques, and how to use our emotional intelligence to maximise our potential enjoyment, while minimising the risks.

Author : David M. Ortmann
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 39,56 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1442217359

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This study draws on common sense, humor, anecdotes, interviews, history, clinical case studies, analyses of human behavior, and basic ideas from psychology and philosophy to ilustrate the real lives and experiences of men and women in BDSM communities.

Author : Lee Harrington
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,45 MB
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0937609595

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Whether you're a trembling novice or a jaded expert, there's always something new to be discovered in the endlessly changing, complex and titillating world of kink. While there are plenty of other books out there that explain how to give a spanking or tie a half-hitch, Playing Well With Others is the first book that explains kink *culture* -- the munches, parties, leather bars, conferences, workshops, fetish nights, exploratoriums and all the other gatherings of kinksters that turn BDSM and leather from a bedroom predilection to a lifestyle and a community. You'll learn to: • Examine your own motivations, needs, wants and desires • Ease your way into established communities • Understand etiquette in different adventurous sex communities • Familiarize yourself with the many types of events available to you • Care for your relationships as you explore new territory • Negotiate for play and aftercare • Go back to the “world at large” without ruffling feathers • ...and, of course, answer the all-important question: What do you wear?! The team of Harrington and Williams offers 30-plus years of experience in diverse kink communities: top, bottom and switch; gay, bi and straight; female, male and trans; white and POC. Both former titleholders and international educators, they are an unbeatable pair of "sexual sherpas" with an inimitable voice and a great deal of wisdom. Playing Well With Others is an unprecedented and essential guidebook for anyone who wants to explore or understand the "community" aspect of the kink lifestyle.

Author : Stephen K. Stein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,87 MB
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1000346072

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Sadomasochism and the BDSM Community in the United States: Kinky People Unite chronicles the development of sadomasochistic sexuality and its communities in the United States from the post-war period to the present day. Having evolved from scattered networks of sadomasochists to a coherent body bound by shared principles of "safe, sane, consensual," activists worked to transform popular perceptions of their community, end its routine harassment by law enforcement and win inclusion in American society. Often paralleling the work of LGBTQ activists, people who engaged in BDSM (Bondage and Discipline, Dominance and Submission, and Sadism and Masochism) transformed both their own sexual practices and how outsiders perceived them, successfully changing popular perceptions of them from fascists, murderers, and outlaws to people living an alternative lifestyle. The development of this community highlights the interactions of people of different sexual orientations within a sexual community, the influence of various campaigns for sexual freedom, and the BDSM community's influence on popular perceptions of sexuality and sexual freedom. The text’s historical perspective gives depth and texture to a specific dimension of American history of sexuality. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in the history of sexuality. Its clear and direct approach offers an important and useful chronology of a movement that has long been neglected.

Author : Staci Newmahr
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 20,83 MB
Release : 2011-02-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0253005124

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Representations of consensual sadomasochism range from the dark, seedy undergrounds of crime thrillers to the fetishized pornographic images of sitcoms and erotica. In this pathbreaking book, ethnographer Staci Newmahr delves into the social space of a public, pansexual SM community to understand sadomasochism from the inside out. Based on four years of in-depth and immersive participant observation, she juxtaposes her experiences in the field with the life stories of community members, providing a richly detailed portrait of SM as a social space in which experiences of "violence" intersect with experiences of the erotic. She shows that SM is a recreational and deeply gendered risk-taking endeavor, through which participants negotiate boundaries between chaos and order. Playing on the Edge challenges our assumptions about sadomasochism, sexuality, eroticism, and emotional experience, exploring what we mean by intimacy, and how, exactly, we achieve it.

Author : Kandice Van Beerschoten
Publisher : Teneo Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,63 MB
Release : 2017-03-10
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781934844540

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The Meaning of BDSM Experiences: A Psychodynamic Perspective is important reading for researchers of perversions, sexual behaviors, and BDSM because it provide a framework and insights based on careful analysis of case studies.

Author : Margot Weiss
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 30,33 MB
Release : 2011-12-20
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0822351595

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In this lively ethnography, Weiss studies the pansexual BDSM community in the San Francisco Bay Area. Weiss finds that BDSM practice is not as transgressive as the participants imagine, nor is it simply reinforcing of older forms of social domination. Instead she shows how fantasy play depends on pre-existing social hierarchies, even as it also participates in a commodification of desires.

Author : Carolyn Elliott
Publisher : Weiser Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,49 MB
Release : 2020-03
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1578636477

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A smart, sexy guide to embracing the repressed, tabooed, and often unwanted aspects of ourselves so we can discover our inner power and finally live the life we deserve. 'We always get exactly what we want; but often, though we may not be aware of it, what we most want is dark - very dark." Each of us has a dual nature: we are light (conscious) and dark (unconscious). The dark side of our personality - the "other," the shadow side - is made up of what we think is our primitive, primal, negative impulses - our "existential kink." Our existential kink also drives the dark or negative repeating patterns in our life: always choosing the abusive partner or boss, settling for less, thinking that we're undeserving, not worthy. But it also is the source of our greatest power. In Existential Kink, Carolyn Elliot, PhD, offers a truth-telling guide for bringing our shadow into the light. Inviting us to make conscious the unconscious, Elliot asks us to own the subconscious pleasure we get from the stuck, painful patterns of our existence. Existential Kink provides practical advice and meditations so we truly see our shadow side's "guilty pleasures," love and accept them, and integrate them into our whole being. By doing so, Elliot shows, we bring to life the raw, hot, glorious power we all have to get what we really want in our lives.