Images of Desire: Finding Your Natural Sensual Self in Today's Image-Filled Society - Softcover

Sussman, Jaqueline Lapa

9780312875794: Images of Desire: Finding Your Natural Sensual Self in Today's Image-Filled Society

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312875797 ISBN 13: 9780312875794

Publisher: Forge Books, 2003

Most of us suffer from images implying that we must look and act like movie stars to be sensuous. Movie, television, magazines, as well as our personal histories, shape these images and sensuality.But each of us is born with a natural sensuality that is still locked within us. Eidetic Imaging removes those layers of false images and unlocks our lush, natural sensuality.

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About the Author:

Jaqueline Sussman was born in Brooklyn, NY and at the age of one moved with her family to Caracas, Venezuela where she lived for ten years before returning to the United States. She has lived in California, New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut, where she now lives with her husband, son and daughter in college, and two dogs. Jaqueline earned her BA from San Jose State University and her Masters in Counseling at Long Island University. She is currently working on her Ph.D. in Eidetic Image Psychology. For the past twenty years she has worked closely with Dr. Akhter Ahsen, founder and internationally renowned leader in the field of Eidetic Imagery.

Jaqueline has always been interested in and focused upon helping people achieve their deepest fulfillment and potential in life. For over twenty years she has maintained a private practice in New York City and in Connecticut. She has worked with leaders in business, education, government, medicine and professional sports, is the author of two books and scores of articles, conducts workshops throughout the U. S., and is associated with the Journal of Mental Imagery.

From Publishers Weekly:

To erase the effects of childhood socialization, religious taboos, unattainable media images and other influences on adult sexuality that Sussman feels are repressive and constraining, she offers 40 exercises involving "eidetic imaging." These visualization techniques can also be used, she claims, to improve relationships. Though some of the exercises are potentially more helpful than others, each is presented as a key cure for a specific psychological or relationship problem. Contrary to Sussman's assertions, while visualization techniques are now commonly used, most experts view them as a tool, not a panacea, for recovery and self-improvement. Writing in 1970s pop psychology jargon (rife with words like "hangups," "uptight" and "baggage"), Sussman employs gender-based generalizations that are equally clich‚d. She claims, for instance, that the physical symptoms of menopause (hot flashes, mood swings, insomnia, etc.) are caused solely by women's emotional resistance to aging. She also recommends pulling "the divine veil of mercy" over extramarital affairs (meaning that readers shouldn't tell their spouse about them) failing to mention STDs and other possible complications. Just as dubiously, she prescribes "mercy sex" with a spouse when the passion in the marriage is gone, as an antidote to the relationship's problems. Though some of Sussman's visualizing techniques may be helpful, they are accompanied by what many readers may find to be questionable advice. (May)Forecast: Advertising in Psychology Today may help sell a few books, but Sussman's unlikely to win a wide following for this flawed effort.

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