Sexual Disorders

A course on sexual difficulties and their place in a person’s life. It explores healthy sexuality, expectations, sexual identity and barriers to intimacy, including the person’s attitude towards the difficulty.

Topics

• Healthy sexuality
• Cultural expectations and their influence
• The practitioner’s attitudes to sexuality
• Sexual biography
• Sexual identity
• Beliefs about sexuality
• The origins of difficulties and possible responses
• Hyperintention and hyperreflection
• Premature ejaculation and erectile dysfunction
• Reduced desire and difficulties with arousal
• Compulsive sexual behaviour and problematic pornography use
• Responsibility and boundaries
• Guilt and self-forgiveness
• Attitude modulation and dereflection
• Meaning in intimacy and relationships