Citizenship United States Role Columnist | Name Deborah Anapol | |
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Occupation Clinical psychologist, writer Books The Seven Natural Laws of Love, Polyamory in the 21st Century: Love and Intimacy with Multiple Partners | ||
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Deborah Taj Anapol (1951–2015) was an American clinical psychologist and one of the founders of the polyamory movement, which started in the 1980s. Known for her work in erotic spirituality, ecosex, neotantra and Pelvic-Heart Integration, she was an advocate for multiple love and sacred sexuality. Her work made early use of the Internet to gather and organize like-minded people. She was also the co-founder of the magazine Loving More and its conferences. She wrote one of the first books on polyamory, Love Without Limits (1992); which was expanded and reissued as Polyamory: The New Love Without Limits, in 1997. An expert columnist for Psychology Today, she blogged at "Love Without Limits, Reports from the relationship frontier."
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Anapol was a pioneer in opening the way for diversity of form in healthy relationships, and received the "Vicki" Award from the Woodhull Freedom Foundation for her work affirming sexual freedom as a fundamental human rights.
Appearances
Anapol appeared on radio and television shows, such as Donahue, Leeza, Real Personal, Jerry Springer, and Sally Jesse Raphael. She taught workshops internationally in subjects such as Pelvic-Heart Integration and Polyamory.
Pelvic-Heart Integration
Pelvic-Heart Integration (PHI) is a synthesis of neo-Reichian breathwork, body work, energy work, psychodrama, trauma work, body reading and neotantra and was developed by bodyworker Dr. Jack Painter, of which Anapol was a certified practitioner.
Deborah Anapol died unexpectedly in England on 18 August 2015.
Works
Anapol is the author of several books:
Anapol has created a 3-part DVD video entitled, "Pelvic-Heart Integration."