Sex in Psychotherapy
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Course: Sex in Psychotherapy: Five Hours Continuing Education
Issues surrounding sex, sexuality, gender, and gender identity are ubiquitous in the practice of psychotherapy. Most therapists have little access to the burgeoning research and expanding theories regarding these topics. This course defines eight (8) contemporary perspectives for illuminating sexualities as they appear in various kinds of erotic and eroticized encounters in life and in psychotherapy. Published case vignettes provide models for handling a variety of sexual issues as they arise in practice while the three (3) in-depth case studies focus on the development of erotic transference, resistance, and countertransference with various possibilities for clinical understanding and response.
Course Objectives
Overall goal: To help you identify areas of high risk in advance and know how to take appropriate preventative measures. Completion of the 5-hour course will enhance your ability to:
- To learn eight (8) different perspectives from which to listen to issues of sex and sexuality.
- To know how the “ethnosexual frontier” links sexuality and ethnicity.
- To learn Foucault’s argument regarding the linkage of power and sexuality.
- To learn how post-modernism and constructionism affect our understanding of sex and sexuality.
- To learn how sexual encounters in therapy reveal transference and countertransference issues.
- To know the implications of early infant-caregiving interactions for the development of later sexuality.
- To learn the fundamentals of intersubjective and relational approaches to psychotherapy.
