Anne Hooper
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Anne Hooper is a British sex therapist and author, who pioneered therapy
groups for women with sex problems in the 1970s and 1980s and who wrote UK newspaper columns on the subject of human sexuality in the 1990s.
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Her book Hot, Hot, Hot: The Body Electric has been described as “a semenal work” and has been in print for over 30 years while Divorce and Your Children was the first UK based book on the subject and has also been in print for over 30 years. She is author of the popular psychology book Adler
for Beginners and an innovative work on the links between evolutionary psychology
and sexual function in Sex: the Manual aka How Was It For You?
, introducing sexual subject matter to its readers in the early 1990s and also had columns in Cosmopolitan
, First Magazine, Best, and Bella. As a reforming feminist, she ensured that her writing was non-sexist at a time when others had not yet adapted their attitudes. She was a long-term radio presenter of the Counselling Programme on LBC in London and the first agony aunt for the first national cable television station in the UK (Wire TV). Currently she is consultant to Amora – the Academy of Sex and Relationships.
She has been a trustee for the Post Abortion Counselling Service (PACS) a regional committee member of the Family Planning Association and is presently assisting Ataxia UK.
Anne Hooper has been happily ‘unmarried’ to counselling and radio guru Phillip Hodson
for over 30 years with whom she has one son, Alex Hooper-Hodson. She is also mother to Barnaby and Joel Levy. All three sons work in the media.
Therapy
This is a list of types of therapy .* Adventure therapy* Animal-assisted therapy* Aquatic therapy* Aromatherapy* Art and dementia* Art therapy* Authentic Movement* Behavioral therapy* Bibliotherapy* Buteyko Method* Chemotherapy...
groups for women with sex problems in the 1970s and 1980s and who wrote UK newspaper columns on the subject of human sexuality in the 1990s.
Books
Since beginning a career as an author in the late 1970s she has written over 40 titles on the subject of sex therapy and sexual enhancement. These include The Ultimate Sex Guide and 21st Century Kama SutraKama Sutra
The Kama Sutra is an ancient Indian Hindu text widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior in Sanskrit literature written by Vātsyāyana. A portion of the work consists of practical advice on sexual intercourse. It is largely in prose, with many inserted anustubh poetry verses...
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Her book Hot, Hot, Hot: The Body Electric has been described as “a semenal work” and has been in print for over 30 years while Divorce and Your Children was the first UK based book on the subject and has also been in print for over 30 years. She is author of the popular psychology book Adler
Adler
The term Adler, the German word for the bird of prey "eagle", is both the last name of many people and an emblematic bird featured on many blazons since the feudal age, including the present German Bundeswappen and at times on the flags of Austria and Germany...
for Beginners and an innovative work on the links between evolutionary psychology
Evolutionary psychology
Evolutionary psychology is an approach in the social and natural sciences that examines psychological traits such as memory, perception, and language from a modern evolutionary perspective. It seeks to identify which human psychological traits are evolved adaptations, that is, the functional...
and sexual function in Sex: the Manual aka How Was It For You?
Counseling
Hooper is a marital counselor, a sex therapist (BASRT) and was part of the first wave of pioneer UK sex therapists. She founded the Women's Sexuality Workshop in the late 1970s, is a UK listed psychotherapist, a former council member of the Adlerian Society for Individual Psychology of Great Britain, and Founding Editor of the Adlerian YearbookJournalism and radio
Hooper was a regular columnist on the Daily MailDaily Mail
The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust. First published in 1896 by Lord Northcliffe, it is the United Kingdom's second biggest-selling daily newspaper after The Sun. Its sister paper The Mail on Sunday was launched in 1982...
, introducing sexual subject matter to its readers in the early 1990s and also had columns in Cosmopolitan
Cosmopolitan (magazine)
Cosmopolitan is an international magazine for women. It was first published in 1886 in the United States as a family magazine, was later transformed into a literary magazine and eventually became a women's magazine in the late 1960s...
, First Magazine, Best, and Bella. As a reforming feminist, she ensured that her writing was non-sexist at a time when others had not yet adapted their attitudes. She was a long-term radio presenter of the Counselling Programme on LBC in London and the first agony aunt for the first national cable television station in the UK (Wire TV). Currently she is consultant to Amora – the Academy of Sex and Relationships.
She has been a trustee for the Post Abortion Counselling Service (PACS) a regional committee member of the Family Planning Association and is presently assisting Ataxia UK.
Film work
Hooper is the founder of the Tetbury Film Society and now works with the British Federation of Film Societies – South West to further film viewing in remote regions of South West England.Anne Hooper has been happily ‘unmarried’ to counselling and radio guru Phillip Hodson
Phillip Hodson
Phillip Hodson is a British psychotherapist, broadcaster and author who popularised ‘phone-in’ therapy in his role as Britain's first 'agony uncle'. His afternoon and evening counselling programmes ran on LBC Radio in London for nearly 20 years...
for over 30 years with whom she has one son, Alex Hooper-Hodson. She is also mother to Barnaby and Joel Levy. All three sons work in the media.
External links
- http://www.annehooper.com