According to the popular imagination, psychoanalysis is about men wanting to sleep with their mothers and women wanting penises. Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Perspectives tells a different story about what has happened to sex in psychoanalysis over the past century.

In the book, a range of distinguished contributors challenge the view that sexuality is nothing other than historically and culturally determined. Introducing the ideas of sexuality from the viewpoint of a number of theoretical schools, they then go on to offer contemporary psychoanalytic views of Sexuality in childhood, Female and male sexuality (heterosexual and homosexual), Sexual perversions.

Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Perspectives is a comprehensive introduction to the subject, covering its development over he last 100 years, and bringing it up to date for the 21st Century. The book will make enlightening and essential reading for both professionals and students involved in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and counseling.