Sex is emotion in action!
Often, love and sexuality are not an integral part of life’s pleasures, but become suffering, pain, shame and emptiness. Relying on a therapist specialising in couples therapy and systemic sex therapy can be the right way to rework your life story, experiment with new ways of relating, untangle knots and regain your autonomy and the […]
Sexual symptom
Often, it is around a symptom that an emotional relationship is created. It is something very dubious, but very real. The question is: What is a sexual symptom? – A deficiency? “I lack this.” – An inability? “I am not capable.” – An inadequacy? “I am inadequate.” – A painful burden? “I don’t get erections”; […]
Systemic sex therapy – studies
I have never met a therapist who has decided not to address the issue of sex in therapy, just as I have never met a client who has refused to talk about their intimate life. However, systemic therapists, particularly Italian ones, do not make sex a structured topic of their clinical reflections. Curiously, sexology remains […]
Systemic sex therapy
Systemic sex therapy differs from the functionalist tradition of Masters & Johnson. It allows people who want to have a satisfying sexual relationship to resolve long-standing problems, such as a decline in desire, which is not due to biological or medical causes, but to relationship issues. Systemic sex therapy starts from an interesting premise: desire […]
The duogramma
QUADRILHA Carlos Drummond de Andrade “João que amava Teresa, que amava Raimundo, que amava Maria, que amava Joaquim, que amava Lili que não amava ninguém. João foi para os Estados Unidos, Teresa para o convento, Raimundo morreu de desastre, Maria ficou para tia, Joaquim suicidou-se e Lili casou-se com J. Pinto Fernandes que não tinha […]
Psychosexual development
Na Psicoterapia Sistêmica as fases do desenvolvimento Psicossexual são distribuídas de forma diferente da Psicanálise. In Freud’s school, it is as follows: oral phase/anal phase/phallic phase/latency period and genital phase. Systemic psychotherapy is based on Freud’s theory with some modifications: oral phase/anal phase/phallic phase and restart in pre-adolescence of the oral phase/anal phase/phallic phase and […]