Useful Adjunct to Sexual Therapy

1978 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 595-596
Author(s):  
BARBARA STRUDLER WALLSTON
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Therapy

Human Sexual Development is Subject to Critical-Period Learning: Paradigm-Shifting Implications for Sexual Therapy and for Child-Rearing

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 295-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Griffee ◽  
Stephen L. O’Keefe ◽  
Keith W. Beard ◽  
Debra H. Young ◽  
Martin J. Kommor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Development ◽  
Critical Period ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Learning Paradigm ◽  
Sexual Therapy ◽  
Paradigm Shifting

scholarly journals ‘You Can’t Dismiss that as Being Less Happy, You See it is Different’. Sexual Counselling in 1950s England

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 375-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Rusterholz
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Work ◽  
British Society ◽  
Emotional Control ◽  
Sexual Subjectivity ◽  
Sexual Therapy ◽  
Audio Recordings ◽  
Sexual Counselling ◽  
Therapy Sessions ◽  
Popular Psychology

Abstract 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.

scholarly journals The Male Sexual Pain: Issues and Treatments

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-48
Author(s):  
G. Del Noce ◽  
◽  
W. Duretto ◽  
R. Bochicchio ◽  
F. Ragni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pelvic Floor ◽  
Postoperative Course ◽  
Genital Pain ◽  
The Third ◽  
Integrated Methodology ◽  
Sexual Therapy ◽  
Sexual Pain ◽  
Male Genital ◽  
Clinical Cases

Objective: There are several kinds of male genital pain which can cause mental suffering. Usually, they emerge during ordinary urological or andrological examinations. These distresses, sine materia, can be divided into different groups. Design and Method: The first group, which is the most frequent one, mainly affects the testicles; usually, this kind of distress last all life and it is often associated with surgery and/or frequent examinations to the genitals during childhood. The second group encompasses cases of real penodinia: the patients express their discomfort especially uncovering the glan and, for this reason, this action is never done. This distress is not always referred to as pain, but more often as bothersome. Sexual intercourses are permitted. Often the patients undergo a circumcision that usually has a complicated postoperative course. The males of the third group correspond to the women suffering from vaginismus. The patients do not even tolerate the approach of the hand to the penis and they make the same actions and the same movements as the vaginismic women. The patients are unable to have sex. This phenomenon is rare. In a perspective of multi-disciplinary and integrated methodology, the patients were treated with traditional surgery and/or with administration of drugs and/or with sexual therapy according with the integrated Kaplan method and/or with techniques for the rehabilitation of the pelvic floor. Results: Some clinical cases will be presented and discussed. Conclusions: The Authors describe new categories of male genital pain, never defined before, similar to Vulvodynia or Vaginism in women.

scholarly journals Sexual Therapy in Psoriasis? Is It Necessary?

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Mariusz Jaworski
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Therapy

scholarly journals The Attitudes of Therapists and Physicians on the Use of Sex Robots in Sexual Therapy: Online Survey and Interview Study

10.2196/13853 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (8) ◽  
pp. e13853 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christiane Eichenberg ◽  
Marwa Khamis ◽  
Lisa Hübner
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Interview Study ◽  
Therapeutic Use ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Therapeutic Benefits ◽  
Sex Robots ◽  
Sexual Therapy ◽  
Qualitative Interview Study

Background Various types of robots have already been successfully used in medical care, and the use of new technologies is also playing an increasing role in the area of sexuality. Sex robots are marketed as advanced sex toys and sex dolls with artificial intelligence. Only a few considerations about the therapeutic use of sex robots in sexual therapy are debated in expert discussions. Objective The aim of this study was to conduct a first exploratory survey on the attitudes of sex therapists and physicians toward the therapeutic benefits of sex robots. Methods This study comprised a quantitative online survey and a qualitative interview study. A self-constructed questionnaire was used to survey the general attitudes of sex therapists and physicians regarding the benefits of sex robots in therapy. The qualitative study was designed to gain in-depth insight into the participants’ beliefs and attitudes. Therefore, semistructured interviews were conducted. The quantitative data were evaluated by statistical analysis, and the interviews were transcribed and analyzed by using a grounded theory approach. Results A total of 72 sex therapists and physicians completed our self-constructed questionnaire (response rate 15%, 72/480). Only a few respondents (11%, 8/72) said that the use of sex robots was not conceivable for them, and almost half of all therapists and physicians could imagine recommending sex robots in therapy (45%, 33/72). The attitude toward sex robots as a therapeutic tool was very heterogeneous, with gender (P=.006), age (P=.03), and occupational differences (P=.05); female therapists, older therapists, and psychologists (in contrast to physicians) were more critical toward the therapeutic use of sex robots. The analysis of the 5 interviews identified 3 high-level core themes that were representative of the participants’ responses: (1) the importance of the personal definition of sex robots for the assessment of their therapeutic benefits, (2) therapeutic benefits and dangers of sex robots, and (3) considerations on the quality of human-robot sexuality. Initial insights into the possible therapeutic use of sex robots in different disorders (eg, sexual dysfunction or pedophilia) and situations were gained from the perspective of sex therapists. Conclusions The results of this study provide a first overview of the potential therapeutic use of sex robots. Moral, ethical, and treatment-related issues in this context are still unresolved and need to be further researched. We suggest integrating the topic into the training of sex therapists to form opinions beyond media images and to show therapy possibilities. Scientists engaged in sexual research should be involved in the development of sex robots to design robots with positive effects on sexual education, sexual therapy, sexual counseling, and sexual well-being for interested groups.

A Selection of Recent Literature on Human Sexuality with Special Reference to Marriage Counseling Practice

1976 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 233-252
Author(s):  
William F. Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Professional Growth ◽  
Human Sexuality ◽  
Family Counseling ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Sexual Therapy ◽  
Sex And Sexuality ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Theological Thinking ◽  
Selection Of

There is a staggering volume of literature on human sexuality these days. It is difficult for professionals to have time to assess the value of much of this literature, though much of it would be useful to the Christian marriage and family counselor whether for his own professional growth, for bibliotherapy with clients, or as resource material for teaching and speaking in community service. This article surveys representative literature dealing with different aspects of human sexuality and attempts some assessment of it for professional and client use in marriage and family counseling. Some are very heavy tomes, others fairly frothy, popular-level treatments. All, however, add in some measure depth and perspective to the marriage and family counselor's understanding of sexuality at a time when values are shifting and traditional ideas about sexuality are rapidly changing. Most of the books discussed are relatively recent; that is, from the 1970s. A few, on the other hand, come from the latter part of the 1960s. It was thought that Masters and Johnson's Human Sexual Response was so basic to the whole tenor of contemporary sexual therapy and counseling that it has been included in this brief survey. It is a most encouraging sign that there is a literature on sexuality (cf. Small & Smedes) that is indicative of a new approach to sex and sexuality coming for the Christian in our time. This is a development long overdue and God is to be praised for stirring up gifted men to do the writing at this time. Much solid theological thinking about sexuality is bound to increase in the future. That evangelical writers would see the need and rise to meet it is thrilling beyond measure. New directions in understanding sexuality for Christians are being established in our time.

Preliminary results from the Sexual Therapy and Rehabilitation after Treatment for Ovarian Cancer (START-OC) study.

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 127-127
Author(s):  
Sharon L. Bober ◽  
Jaime E. Blackmon ◽  
Christopher J. Recklitis ◽  
Alexi A. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Ovarian Cancer ◽  
Sexual Dysfunction ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Group Intervention ◽  
Group Session ◽  
Eligibility Criteria ◽  
Sexual Therapy ◽  
Quantitative Analyses ◽  
Feedback Data

127 Background: For ovarian cancer (OC) survivors, serious sexual dysfunction is one of the most distressing long-term side effects of treatment, with up to 90% survivors reporting a loss of interest in sexual activity for years after diagnosis. Despite the prevalence and magnitude of the problem, treatment-related sexual dysfunction and accompanying psychological distress are not addressed for most survivors. There is a critical need to address these problems for OC survivors. Methods: We are currently piloting a novel psychosexual intervention to help women manage sexual changes and improve sexual functioning after ovarian cancer treatment. Guided by Self-Determination Theory, this group-based intervention also aims to enhance women’s self-efficacy to address problems. Eligibility criteria include: OC diagnosis, functional ability, and sexual dysfunction. Women participate in a single half-day workshop, complete questionnaires, and engage in a booster telephone session. Detailed workshop evaluations are collected to assess women’s feedback of the group session. This study is currently enrolling. Results: To date, 369 women have been contacted, of which 45 (12.2%) have attended or are scheduled to attend a group session. Preliminary feedback data indicate high favorability of the group session; 100% of the women (N = 16) agreed or strongly agreed that the content of the group session was easy to understand and that the group session gave helpful information for addressing treatment-related sexual problems. Additionally, 100% of participants agreed that they were satisfied with the group session and enjoyed participating in it. Conclusions: Preliminary data show that women report multiple benefits from the session content and are highly satisfied with the group session. However, low response rates raise several questions with regard to timing and recruitment of a sexual health intervention after OC treatment. Next steps include quantitative analyses of changes in sexual function, sexual knowledge, and sexual self-efficacy consequent to the group intervention. Clinical trial information: NCT02287519.

T01-O-01 Sexual therapy in Croatia: taking the first steps

Sexologies ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. S50
Author(s):  
G. Arbanas ◽  
A. Stulhofer
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Therapy
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