Sex Therapy

Sex Therapy

Introduction

There are various forms of psychotherapy, which are used for the treatment of sexual disorders. The analytical process causes intense emotional interaction giving an insight into the unconscious conflicts, fears and desires, which may be rooted in the sexual problem of the patient / the patient. Sexual function is to be improved, that the mismatched relation can be changed, which have given rise to the sexually destructive fears and to emergence of anti-erotic behavior patterns. Sexologists also have access to the full range of psychotherapies, the couple therapies, psychoanalysis, and behavioral therapies, through hypnosis, psychotherapy and relational psychoanalytic inspiration (Goodwach, 2005).  In this paper, sex therapies will be discussed in detail.

Discussion

Origin

The scientific study of human sexual behavior was born in the mid 50s with the work of Kinsey, Semans, Masters and Johnson and Helen Kaplan (Goodwach, 2005). Alfred Kinsey, affiliated with Indiana University, was the first physician to analyze the sexual histories of volunteers who agreed to be interviewed, gathering a lot of valuable information, published in 1948, which made it possible to know the sexual behavior of the common man and constitute for the first time a data base to which refer to cure those who had problems. . Based on the experience thus gained, they treated, in 1959, 733 male and female patients with classic sexual dysfunction (premature ejaculation, erectile dysfunction and premature deficient in men and orgasmic dysfunction, vaginismus and dyspareunia in women). The success rate of their treatment program was about 80% (Goodwach, 2005). At the same time James Semans, an urologist at Duke University, is developing a method, still considered very valuable for the treatment of premature ejaculation and published his results in 1956. In the years immediately following Bill Masters and Virginia Johnson are studying the changes that the state of excitation causes the genitals of men and women in 1966 and publish their findings (Atwood and Weinstein, 1989). In the years that saw the flowering, the scientific interest in sexual function, Helen S. Kaplan, a psychiatrist at Cornell University, improves the effectiveness of behavioral techniques already known integrating them with a with a psychodynamic approach and published his results in 1974. A further development of the approach suggested by Kaplan has allowed integration with pro erection drugs that have become available in the years 90, and those for the pharmacological control of orgasm, entered the market only recently (Kaplan, 1974).

Theory of problem formation

Sex therapy behavior applies to all the dysfunctions, male and female, which find their origin in a reaction of anxiety, discomfort or intrapsychic difficulties in a relationship. Problems occur with the same clinical picture and recognize the same causes immediate, intrapsychic or relational or both in patients and in patient's heterosexual couples or same-sex couples, who are treated with a therapeutic approach comparable (Atwood and Weinstein, 1989). With sex therapy people can deal with the problems that occur during convalescence from serious illness, when surgical sequel caused by or resulting directly from the action of a specific drug ...