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Not just for OU - Open to all TANTRA: IT’S THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS OR IS IT? Sexuality is a fundamental and extraordinary feature of human life. Without it, of course, none of us would be here. But it can also be the source of both our highest and lowest experiences. On one hand, it can cement intense biological, social and even spiritual connection between lovers. On the other, it can provoke jealousy, abuse or even rape. It provides a fertile study ground for those interested in the psychology of human behaviour and experience. The Open University Psychology Society have risen to the challenge and are offering for their summer conference a international set of speakers who cover the psychology of Sexuality from a range of perspectives. Professor Erick Janssen flies over from the Kinsey Institute (where the serious study of human sexuality began) to discuss the psychophysiology of sex. Dr Glen Wilson from the Maudsley Institute, University of London, will be talking about sexuality and the brain. Other topics include sexual health (Dr Richard de Visser from Sussex University) and the effects of sexual abuse in childhood (Dr Yvonne Verburg from the Riagg Institute in the Netherlands). Sexual intimacy and fulfilment will also be explored by Dr Bo Mills, a psychiatrist at the Priory Clinic, and Leonore Lightwoman, the leading teacher of Tantric approaches to sexuality in the UK (and an experimental psychologist). The panel is rounded off by two well- known OU psychologists, Dr Frederick Toates and Dr Richard Stevens, who will be looking more broadly at the psychology of sexuality and how it relates to human life. This promises to be yet another stimulating, interactive and relatively inexpensive summer conference organised by OUPS. Speakers in previous years have included some of the most eminent names in their respective areas - B.F.Skinner, Noam Chomsky, Colin Blakemore, Richard Gregory and Philip Zimbardo. To find out more or join OUPS (only £15) contact Irene Baumgartl ([log in to unmask]: Tel 0208 876 9803)