Sex Therapy is Relational

Keep the Baby, Change the Bathwater

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20177907
AutoresFran Parkin (autor correspondente)
Ano2009
Volume39
Fascículo2
Páginas84-94
Data de publicação2009-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoTransactional Analysis Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0362-1537 • E-ISSN: 2329-5244
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1177/036215370903900202
OpenAlexW2056232411
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas14

Sex therapy has often been characterized as a set of specialized skills revolving around an understanding of dysfunction and specific techniques that hold the key to change. While not discounting the importance of specific knowledge and understanding, this article contends that those factors need to be integrated with new understandings of relational patterns and unconscious processes. The author highlights the usefulness of an integrative approach that employs appropriate permissions and information but posits these in a wider relational context. The predisposing factors for the development of sexual patterns are seen as both biology and constructs from our early relational needs. A relational paradigm is used to examine their maintenance within a couple or interpersonal setting as well as implications for the therapeutic relationship. These ideas are developed with several case studies

Interpersonal communication · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Relational theory · Unconscious mind · Computer Science · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology · Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy