Sex therapy as a humanistic enterprise

Contemporary sexology is fragmented, with the new sexuality studies almost completely split off from the new sexual therapies. Clinical sexology research and practice are in danger of being captured by commercial interests, chiefly the global pharmaceutical industry. One solution to both of these in...

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Published in:Sexual and relationship therapy 2006-08, Vol.21 (3), p.359-375
Main Author: Tiefer, Leonore
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
body therapies
humanistic
Humanistic approach
medical model
medicalisation
Medicalization
qualitative research methods
Sex therapy
Sexology
sexual enhancement
sexual politics
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Summary:Contemporary sexology is fragmented, with the new sexuality studies almost completely split off from the new sexual therapies. Clinical sexology research and practice are in danger of being captured by commercial interests, chiefly the global pharmaceutical industry. One solution to both of these intellectual problems comes from an examination of the all-but-forgotten history of humanistic sexology in the 1970s. It may be that the political involvement, research creativity, body - mind approaches, and respect for sexual diversity that emerge from this history can offer some directions for contemporary sexologists. The New View of Women's Sexual Problems, an educational campaign dedicated to challenging the post-Viagra medicalisation of sexual problems, incorporates some of these humanistic elements in a way that offers some new training directions.
ISSN:1468-1994
1468-1749
DOI:10.1080/14681990600740723