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[Psychoanalysis and sexology: antagonism or synergy?]
1Service de psychiatrie de liaison et d'intervention de crise, Département de psychiatrie, HUG, 15, rue des Pitons 1205 Genève. lorenzo.soldati@hcuge.ch
Abstract:
Psychoanalysis and sexology are both int-rested in human sexuality but they do not share the same approach. Sexual medicine and sexotherapy aim to o-jectify sexuality and to treat sexual disorders whereas psychoanalysis is more interested in the discovery and the understanding of the subjective experienceoof sexuality. In psych-analysis, change arises rather from acceptance than modification. Evidence based medicine shows that the efficacy of sex therapy is limited and recommends the use of integrative approaches. Psychoanalysis is a necessary complement to sexology because of the links it forges between functional sexuality and psychosexuality, a sexuality with a psychological and emotional dimension, related to an individual's personal history and his identity.
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