Anne Stirling Hastings, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist (psy # 21365). She has been specializing in sexuality for 23 years.
 
Dr. Hastings works with individuals, couples, and groups in reducing shame around sexuality and assisting individuals in addressing sexual addictions, sexual trauma, and other issues that may be related to sexuality and shame.
 
Dr. Hastings has written five books on sexual healing that emphasize the role of the culture in supporting unhealthy sexuality. Sexual shame is a theme of all books, because we must reduce shame in order to examine our own sexuality and heal it. Shame comes from a variety of sources. One is the whole culture’s shameful views of sex. Another is particular experiences with adults or older children that attach shame to sexuality. 
 
Amazon.com sells all five. Searching Anne Stirling Hastings (note the spelling of Stirling) will bring them up. Pages can be read online to see which might be the most helpful.


NEW BOOK


Healing Humanity: Life Without Shame came out in 2009, to look at all kinds of shame that interferes with living a full, loving connected life.


 
Sexual Healing
Anne Stirling Hastings' Books:
 
RECLAIMING HEALTHY SEXUAL ENERGY: REVISED
 
This book is a revision and combination of her first two books, Reclaiming Healthy Sexual Energy, and DISCOVERING SEXUALITY THAT WILL SATISFY YOU BOTH. This revision gives the broadest overview of how to work on healing sexuality. It includes sexual addiction, sexual abuse, and details of how the culture’s views of sex interfere. The second half shows how couples can work together to heal sexuality. It lays out a program for how couples can change the definition of having sex from ending with orgasms to focusing instead on feelings and rules and expectations that accompany sexual activity. As these are relinquished, the real nature of sexuality can emerge. One chapter defines healthy masturbation.  
 
AMERICA’S SEXUAL CRISIS
Two competing movements are going on in the culture. One is an increase of addictive, unhealthy sexuality increasingly employing the internet. The other is a rapidly growing movement toward healthy sexuality based on the healing of sexual abuses and healing of sexual addiction. Which will win out? This book contains all of my thinking on the subject of sexuality, and while not specifically focused on healing, the information can help readers understand sexuality in ways not typical in the culture.  
 
TREATING SEXUAL SHAME
A book for professionals, yet readable by nonprofessionals, I integrate the disparate fields of sexual abuse, addiction and dysfunction.  The common thread, and starting point of treatment, is sexual shame.  
 
FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION: UNDERSTANDING SEXUAL ATTRACTION
TO CHILDREN
Instead of viewing the sexual abuser as different from the rest of us, as someone who can’t be understood, I interview convicted sex offenders to learn what it was like for them to commit their acts.  I found this incredibly eye opening as I liked all but one person, and respected them in their willingness and desire to obtain sexual health.