This article uses the audio recordings of sexual counselling sessions carried out by Dr Joan Malleson, a birth control activist and committed family planning doctor in the early 1950s, which are held at the Wellcome Library in London as a case study to explore the ways Malleson and the patients mobilised emotions for respectively managing sexual problems and expressing what they understood as constituting a 'good sexuality' in postwar Britain. The article contains two interrelated arguments. First, it argues that Malleson used a psychological framework to inform her clinical work. She resorted to an emotion-based therapy that linked sexual difficulties with unconscious, repressed feelings rooted in past events. In so doing, Malleson actively helped to produce a new form of sexual subjectivity where individuals were encouraged to express their feelings and emotions, breaking with the traditional culture of emotional control and restraint that characterized British society up until the fifties. Second, I argue that not only Malleson but also her patients relied on emotions. The performance of mainly negative emotions reveals what they perceived as the 'normal' and sexual 'ideal'. Sexual therapy sessions reflected the seemingly changing nature of the self towards a more emotionally aware and open one that adopted both the language of emotions and that of popular psychology to articulate his or her sexual difficulties.

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“你不能因为不快乐而忽视它，你会发现它是不同的”。1950 年代英国的性咨询

本文使用 1950 年代初期在伦敦威康图书馆举行的节育活动家和坚定的计划生育医生 Joan Malleson 博士进行的性咨询会议的录音作为案例研究，以探索 Malleson 和患者动员情绪分别处理性问题和表达他们所理解的战后英国的“良好性行为”。这篇文章包含两个相互关联的论点。首先，它认为 Malleson 使用了一个心理学框架来为她的临床工作提供信息。她求助于一种基于情绪的疗法，将性困难与植根于过去事件的无意识、压抑的感觉联系起来。这样做时，马勒森积极帮助产生了一种新的性主体形式，鼓励个人表达自己的感受和情感，打破了直到 50 年代英国社会的情绪控制和克制的传统文化。其次，我认为不仅马勒森而且她的病人都依赖情绪。主要是负面情绪的表现揭示了他们认为的“正常”和性“理想”。性治疗课程反映了自我的看似不断变化的本质，趋向于一种更加情绪化和开放的性质，它采用情绪语言和流行心理学的语言来阐明他或她的性困难。打破了直到 50 年代英国社会所特有的情绪控制和克制的传统文化。其次，我认为不仅马勒森而且她的病人都依赖情绪。主要是负面情绪的表现揭示了他们认为的“正常”和性“理想”。性治疗课程反映了自我的看似不断变化的本质，趋向于一种更加情绪化和开放的性质，它采用情绪语言和流行心理学的语言来阐明他或她的性困难。打破了直到 50 年代英国社会所特有的情绪控制和克制的传统文化。其次，我认为不仅马勒森而且她的病人都依赖情绪。主要是负面情绪的表现揭示了他们认为的“正常”和性“理想”。性治疗课程反映了自我的看似不断变化的本质，趋向于一种更加情绪化和开放的性质，它采用情绪语言和流行心理学的语言来阐明他或她的性困难。