Sex therapy as a technique for psychiatric patients

Pages: 368-375
Dinesh Niak (N.V.P. Mondals Arts, Science & Commerce College, Lasalgaon, Nasik, Mahrashtra)

The history of sex therapy as a discipline is relatively brief (Leiblum & Rosen, 1989). From the start of the twentieth century until the late 1960s, sexual dysfunction was typically treated within a psychoanalytic framework (Rosen & Weinstein, 1988) as were most psychological problems (Comer, 1995). As such, treatment consisted of long-term, individual psychotherapy to unmask the underlying (& often unconscious) intra psychic conflicts that manifested themselves as disruption of “healthy” or “mature” sexual functioning. In contrast to this dominant perspective, a few clinicians (e.g., Lazarus, 1971; Obler, 1973; Wolpe, 1958) explicitly applied behavioral principles in the treatment of sexual dysfunction, but such approaches were not the norm prior to the 1970s. In this review article try to collect therapeutic approach in sex therapy in psychiatric patients as well as normal population.