Deborah Taj Anapol (1951–2015) was an American clinical psychologist and one of the founders of the polyamory movement,[1] which started in the 1980s.[2] She died unexpectedly in England on 18 August 2015.[3]
Work
Known for her work in erotic spirituality, ecosex,[4]neotantra and Pelvic-Heart Integration,[5] 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[6] 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,[7] she blogged at "Love Without Limits, Reports from the relationship frontier."[8]
Anapol was a pioneer in opening the way for diversity of form in healthy relationships,[9] and received the "Vicki" Award from the Woodhull Freedom Foundation for her work affirming sexual freedom as a fundamental human rights.[10]
Anapol appeared on radio and television shows, such as Donahue, Leeza, Real Personal, Jerry Springer, and Sally Jesse Raphael.[11] She taught workshops internationally in subjects such as Pelvic-Heart Integration and Polyamory.
Pelvic-Heart Integration (PHI)[12] 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,[13] of which Anapol was a certified practitioner.
