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A Family Myth: Sex Therapy Gone Awry
Author(s) -
SEDERER LLOYD I.,
SEDERER NOOY
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1979.00315.x
Subject(s) - mythology , popularity , sex therapy , psychology , balance (ability) , sexual relationship , psychotherapist , sexual dysfunction , psychiatry , developmental psychology , human sexuality , social psychology , gender studies , sociology , history , neuroscience , classics
The treatment of sexual disorders has achieved considerable popularity and respectability within the mental health profession and the lay community. As a consequence, it has become increasingly difficult to elude requests for this type of treatment and even more difficult to balance sexual concerns with the numerous other modes of relating that exist within a dyadic relationship. This paper will report two versions of a case study in which sexual dysfunction served as a myth that was carefully constructed to veil certain more fundamental problems.