Are sex therapy and God, strange bedfellows? Case studies illuminating the intersection of client sexuality with spirituality, religion, faith or belief practices

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
George W. Turner ◽  
William R. Stayton
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Sex Therapy

Review of Case Studies in Sex Therapy.

1996 ◽  
Vol 41 (11) ◽  
pp. 1150-1150
Author(s):  
Terri Gullickson ◽  
Pamela Ramser
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Sex Therapy

scholarly journals Sexual Communication Through 5 Senses and Sexual Sentence Stems

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-91
Author(s):  
N. Rusetskaya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Sexual Satisfaction ◽  
Sexual Communication ◽  
Sex Therapy ◽  
The Relationship

Objective: AIM: The primary goal of this paper is to examine further the relationship between sexual communication and sexual satisfaction .This research contributes to the clinical sexology literature on this topic in three ways. First, it investigates the relationship between sexual communication and sexual satisfaction using qualitative analysis from several case studies. Second, it introduces a treatment tool, Sexual Sentence Stems (SSS), which can be utilized for working with couples and individuals to improve their sexual communication skills. Finally, it applies this tool with several diverse couples in sex therapy and evaluates its effectiveness.

Men’s Free Will

2020 ◽  
pp. 125-136
Author(s):  
Leslie Margolin
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Sexual Desire ◽  
Sex Therapy ◽  
Heterosexual Men ◽  
Heterosexual Male ◽  
Low Sexual Desire ◽  
Heterosexual Women

“Men’s Free Will” examines how differently sex therapy unfolds when a heterosexual male presents with the problem of low sexual desire—how heterosexual men are often treated more respectfully, more attentively, and more generously than heterosexual women. This chapter shows that for sex therapists, a man’s position in his marital orbit need not adapt to his wife’s needs. She must adapt to his. Through examination of contemporary case studies, the chapter examines how heterosexual men with low sexual desire not only present as more sexually intransigent than heterosexual women, but that their intransigence is more likely to be accepted by their spouse and therapist.

Discontinuities, Deviations, and Reversals

2020 ◽  
pp. 155-166
Author(s):  
Leslie Margolin
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Sex Therapy ◽  
Authentic Self

This chapter discusses case studies where, in the name of treating a woman’s sexual disinterest/resistance, she is not etherized, overpowered, or pressured. Instead, she is taught how to become more attuned to her own feelings, to her own “authentic self.” In this chapter, we see how power in sex therapy sometimes operates more like a velvet glove than a mailed fist. We see how sex therapists sometimes operate with the understanding that a sexually disinterested woman may desire sex more if she feels she has the power to refuse. Thus conceived, sex therapy sometimes appears to support a woman’s autonomy and empowerment, yet, paradoxically, the normal conclusion of these cases is that the sexually disinterested/resistant woman becomes less resistant and more sexually compliant.

Male Identification

2020 ◽  
pp. 73-87
Author(s):  
Leslie Margolin
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Sex Therapy ◽  
Female Patients ◽  
Masters And Johnson

“Male Identification” examines how a prominent follower of Masters and Johnson, Helen Singer Kaplan, viewed her female patients much as Masters and Johnson viewed theirs, as less deserving, as less entitled, and less credible. Kathleen Barry called this bias “male identification,” a phenomenon of growing importance since the field of psychotherapy and the subfield of sex therapy have become increasingly dominated by female practitioners. Through examination of case studies written by Kaplan, the chapter highlights how this therapist pressured women to accept masculine versions of sexual normality. It shows how she encouraged her female patients to admit that, deep down, despite their repeated denials, what they really want and need is a penis—their husband’s penis—thrusting inside their vagina.

Sex Therapy Without Male Privilege and Power

2020 ◽  
pp. 148-154
Author(s):  
Leslie Margolin
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Sex Therapy ◽  
Lesbian Couples ◽  
Male Privilege ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Working Out

This chapter addresses the question of what sex therapy looks like when men are not involved as patients and partners. This chapter asks how professional wisdom about sex therapy with lesbian couples might differ from sex therapy with heterosexuals. The conclusion, based on examination of published case studies, is that when both partners are women, sex therapy appears more attentive to the couple’s relationship, more attentive to how sex fits into the relationship, the underlying meanings that sex has for the partners, and the possibility of working out compromises. In addition, when both partners are women, sex therapy applies fewer psychiatric labels, does not focus on improving either woman’s sexual technic and performance, and is less apt to identify one partner as the main problem.

Doublethink

2020 ◽  
pp. 109-124
Author(s):  
Leslie Margolin
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Male Partner ◽  
Sex Therapy ◽  
Sexual Dysfunctions ◽  
Heterosexual Relationships ◽  
Disadvantaged Women

“Doublethink” reveals that after 1980 sex therapy continued to disadvantage women in much the same way they had been disadvantaged in earlier eras. This chapter shows that, as before, psychiatrists and other sex therapists skipped over the question of how power is divided and expressed in a woman’s heterosexual relationships. The chapter discusses how sex therapy survived using different, and seemingly contradictory, standards for diagnosing and treating sexual dysfunctions that disadvantaged women. The highlighted case studies show that sex therapists denied and dismissed information suggesting that a woman’s disinclination to copulate might be a situationally specific by-product of her relationship with her (male) partner.

The Etherized Wife

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie Margolin
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Sexual Desire ◽  
Sex Therapy ◽  
Male Sexuality ◽  
Collective Consciousness ◽  
Evolution Of Sex ◽  
Comprehensive Examination ◽  
Domains Of Life ◽  
Healthy Sexuality

The Etherized Wife provides a comprehensive examination of the evolution of sex therapy through the prism of gender. The book makes the argument that in sex therapy, like other domains of life in which men set the standard of normality, women have been judged normal to the degree they match men’s expectations. What is particularly striking about this bias is that it contradicts therapists’ overt identification with feminism and the battle against women’s inequality. To support these claims, Leslie Margolin maps a series of case studies drawn from the discipline’s own literature—the articles and books that have been, and continue to be, treated as exemplars of the discipline’s collective consciousness. Through examination of case studies that focus on discrepancies in sexual desire, where the man wants more sex and the woman less, the book shows how therapists have favored the man’s side. The Etherized Wife shows how the sex therapy discipline has unintentionally enshrined male sexuality as the model of normal, healthy sexuality.

Corporate Sustainability: Challenge to Managerial Orthodoxies

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dexter Dunphy
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Marked Contrast ◽  
Sustainability Management

ABSTRACTThis paper addresses the issue of corporate sustainability. It examines why achieving sustainability is becoming an increasingly vital issue for society and organisations, defines sustainability and then outlines a set of phases through which organisations can move to achieve increasing levels of sustainability. Case studies are presented of organisations at various phases indicating the benefits, for the organisation and its stakeholders, which can be made at each phase. Finally the paper argues that there is a marked contrast between the two competing philosophies of neo-conservatism (economic rationalism) and the emerging philosophy of sustainability. Management schools have been strongly influenced by economic rationalism, which underpins the traditional orthodoxies presented in such schools. Sustainability represents an urgent challenge for management schools to rethink these traditional orthodoxies and give sustainability a central place in the curriculum.

Short-Form Application of the Screening Test of Spanish Grammar and the Northwestern Syntax Screening Test to Latino Children

1978 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 220-235
Author(s):  
David L. Ratusnik ◽  
Carol Melnick Ratusnik ◽  
Karen Sattinger
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Screening Test ◽  
Normative Data ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Latino Children ◽  
Data Application ◽  
York Metropolitan Area ◽  
Multiple Regression Technique

Short-form versions of the Screening Test of Spanish Grammar (Toronto, 1973) and the Northwestern Syntax Screening Test (Lee, 1971) were devised for use with bilingual Latino children while preserving the original normative data. Application of a multiple regression technique to data collected on 60 lower social status Latino children (four years and six months to seven years and one month) from Spanish Harlem and Yonkers, New York, yielded a small but powerful set of predictor items from the Spanish and English tests. Clinicians may make rapid and accurate predictions of STSG or NSST total screening scores from administration of substantially shortened versions of the instruments. Case studies of Latino children from Chicago and Miami serve to cross-validate the procedure outside the New York metropolitan area.

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