title: The innocence of sexuality.
abstract: The author explores aspects of sexual experiencing as they emerge in the course of development, especially as structured between parents and children. Is a certain mode of "innocent" sexual relating an important outcome of the developmental process, and does this mode have a place in the analytic process? The author suggests that the restoration of a capacity for sexual experiencing that is relatively free of convoluted developmental legacies may represent an important achievement in analytic work; and that the analyst's participation in this process, using his or her own capacity for "innocent" sexual responsiveness, may be essential to this outcome.
authors.affiliation: Counseling Center, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA. jslavin@tufts.edu
authors.forename: Jonathan H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Slavin
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008149:Love; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D014167:Transference, Psychology