Who's Been Sleeping in Your Head The Secret

In the largest study ever undertaken on sexual fantasy, world-renowned psychotherapist and researcher Brett Kahr reveals the astonishing truths behind secrecy, shame, and taboo in this groundbreaking book based on surveys of 23,000 men and women from eighteen to ninety years of age. The definitive account of what our fantasies tell us about ourselves,Who's Been Sleeping in Your Head?overturns conventional wisdom about sexuality today.

Brett Kahr is Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Psychotherapy and Mental Health at the Centre for Child Mental Health in London and is a Visiting Clinician and Lecturer at the famed Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology. He is Chair of the Society of Couple Psychoanalytic Psycho therapists. He lives in London.

www.brettkahr.com

A Note on Caution and Confidentiality	p. xi
Introduction: On the Couch at 7:00 A.M.	p. 1
The Secret Cinema in Our Minds
Why We Make Love with the Lights Out	p. 15
The Science of Psychological Fingerprints	p. 25
The Intra-Marital Affair: Staging Our Private Theater	p. 69
A Cornucopia of Fantasies
Fantasy 101: Tales of Ordinary Explicitness	p. 111
Group Formations: Threesomes, Foursomes, and Moresomes	p. 123
Cheating: When the Intra-Marital Meets the Extramarital	p. 134
I'm Ready for My Close-Up: Fantasies of Celebrities	p. 143
Is Your Wife a Lesbian? Is Your Husband Homosexual? Is Your Gay Lover Really Straight?	p. 164
On Genital Exhibitionism	p. 186
The Erotic Smorgasbord: Fetishism, Transvestism, Homeovestism, and Other Forms of Object-Love	p. 194
Humiliation and the Infliction of Shame	p. 201
Incest: Do We Really Fancy Our Family?	p. 222
Can I Be Arrested for My Fantasies? Extreme Sexual Violence	p. 242
Teenagers and Children	p. 253
Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice	p. 260
The Origins of Sexual Fantasy
The Underbelly of the Normal Fantasy: Erotic Freedom or Sublimated Sadism?	p. 269
"They've Scraped Out My Soul": Struggling with Shame and Humiliation	p. 289
Case History: Paris and the Ginger Public Hair	p. 312
The Traumatic Roots of Sexual Fantasy	p. 330
The Fourteen Functions of Sexual Fantasy	p. 356
The Mysterious Boxing Gloves, Or, Can Fantasies Be Trauma-Free?	p. 378
Sexual Fantasies and The Outside World
Do Fantasies Ruin Relationships?	p. 399
Normality and Perversion in the Bedroom and the Boardroom	p. 417
Sanctum Sanctorum, Or, Probing the Unprobable	p. 430
The Sexual Fantasy Research Questionnaire	p. 453
Acknowledgments	p. 477
Announcement: The Sexual Fantasy Research Project	p. 484
Index	p. 485
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Who's Been Sleeping in Your Head The Secret World of Sexual Fantasies

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