Darren Langdridge is Professor of Psychology at the Open University (UK), and a United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy accredited existential psychotherapist working in private practice. For many years Darren has researched and written on sexualities, health, phenomenological methodology, critical theory and psychotherapy, publishing numerous books, papers and book chapters. He is the author or co-editor of a number of books, including Existential Counselling and Psychotherapy (2012), Phenomenological Psychology: Theory, Research and Method (2007), Safe, Sane and Consensual: Contemporary Perspectives on Sadomasochism (2007, with M.J. Barker), and Understanding Non-monogamies (2010, with M.J. Barker).
"This is a profoundly significant book: timely and brave. Langdridge demonstrates precisely why courage is needed to discuss rationally the current state of sexuality and gender politics. His call for balancing critique with tradition may properly be seen as a necessary-and a counterintuitively radical-position in our contemporary context."" -Lisa Downing, University of Birmingham, and author of Selfish Women"