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Fundamentals of Theory and Practice Revisited: Sex Therapy: Historical Evolution, Current Practice. Part I
Author(s) -
Goodwach Raie
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1467-8438
pISSN - 0814-723X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1467-8438.2005.tb00663.x
Subject(s) - sex therapy , human sexuality , psychoanalytic theory , family therapy , psychology , field (mathematics) , psychotherapist , epistemology , sociology , psychoanalysis , gender studies , mathematics , pure mathematics , philosophy
This is the first of a two‐part series, and provides a contextual history of major trends in sex therapy, notably the psychoanalytic, behavioural and medical models, as well as detailing the family therapy contribution to the field. Part 2 will present the outline of a first interview, and use it to demonstrate a systemic model which explores the interrelationship between the symptom, the presenting person(s), the ‘sexual’ as part of the relationship, the biological, the broader cultural view of sexuality — and the therapist's framework and thinking. Case studies are used as illustration.