The V-Spot: Healing the 'V'ulnerable Spot from Emotional Abuse

The V-Spot: Healing the 'V'ulnerable Spot from Emotional Abuse

by Joan Lachkar
The V-Spot: Healing the 'V'ulnerable Spot from Emotional Abuse

The V-Spot: Healing the 'V'ulnerable Spot from Emotional Abuse

by Joan Lachkar

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Overview

Everyone knows what the 'G-spot' is, of course. It is a woman's most sensitive and vulnerable physical area. Although men do not have a G-spot per se, both men and women have what Joan Lachkar calls a 'V-spot'—a concentration of highly charged emotional sensitivities emanating from early childhood experiences that remain raw and unhealed. These experiences might involve the parent who abandoned the child at an early age, the mother who smothered the child with too much affection, or the child who was neglected and never touched or soothed. Another source can be a parent or caretaker who drills the message into the child, 'You're not good enough, not deserving enough, too demanding,' etc. For men it could be an emotionally castrating, controlling, dominating, overbearing mother. Many authors have written and talked about emotional abuse, but until The V-Spot no one has given this area of volcanic emotion a name or has written about it in terms accessible to layman and professional alike. Getting in contact with the V-spot is the only way to break away from emotional abuse and begin the healing process. No other book pinpoints not only what ignites the V-spot but also how and why the resulting affect-explosion interferes with judgment, reality, thinking, and perception. The reader will be astonished to discover how tracing the source of one's V-spot strengthens one's capacity to make complex decisions and lessens the repetitive cycle of pain, anxiety, confusion, and turmoil that blindness to one's V-spot can produce.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780765703927
Publisher: Aronson, Jason Inc.
Publication date: 12/24/2007
Pages: 202
Sales rank: 742,536
Product dimensions: 6.15(w) x 9.09(h) x 0.64(d)

About the Author

Joan Lachkar, Ph.D., a psychoanalyst in private practice in California, is the author of The Many Faces of Abuse: Treating the Emotional Abuse of High-Functioning Women, The Narcissistic/Borderline Couple: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Marital Treatment, and numerous publications on marital and political conflict. She is an affiliate member of the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute, and adjunct professor at Mount Saint Mary's College, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Emotional Abuse.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables     ix
Acknowledgments     xi
Introduction     1
The V-Spot and Its Corresponding Concepts     9
Abusers and Their Enablers     31
Emotional Abuse and Its Relationship to the V-Spot     51
Theoretical Considerations     65
Marital Theatrics     89
The Internal Abuser     107
Group Psychology and Cross-Cultural Considerations     123
Treatment Procedures and Techniques     143
Final Thoughts     163
Glossary     167
References     175
Index     181
About the Author     191
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