MAY Announcements
**Virtual Events**
Modern Sex Therapy Institutes for May 2020:
SAR: Sex, Kink, & Social Identity: A Sexual Attitude Reassessment
- Facilitated by Shadeen Francis, Dr. Rachel Needle, Dr. Richard Siegel, Dr. Joe Kort
- Live Via Webinar -- Wednesday-Thursday, May 13-14, 2020 – Wed 5:00pm—8:00pm, Thurs. 9:00am-4:00pm (10 hours)
Addressing Common Sexual Concerns In Individuals and Couples, featuring Dr. Jess O’Reilly, PhD
- Live Via Webinar -- Friday & Saturday, May 15-16, 2020 – 9:00am—6:00pm (16 CE hours)
ADHD in Love and Bed: Treating Couples When One Partner Has ADHD, featuring Ari Tuckman, PhD
- Live Via Webinar -- Sunday, May 17, 2020 –9:00am-1:00pm (4 CE hours)
Mindfulness Based Approaches for Managing Sexual Concerns and Genital Pain in Women, featuring Lori Brotto, PhD
- Live Via Webinar -- Sunday, May 29, 2020 –12:00pm-3:00pm (3 CE hours)
For more information and registration information, visit www.modernsextherapyinstitutes.com
or contact Dr. Rachel Needle at (561) 262-4723, or email to info@modernsextherapyinstitutes.com
Science and Poetry of Love Summit
This virtual event brings together 32 experts: sexologists, psychotherapists, thought leaders, best-selling authors, trainers of therapists, coaches, business leaders and trainers of the trainers. The focus of this event is “Love” and the many ways it is defined, practiced, experienced, and felt. Each speaker was asked to provide some research and a poem. It is sheer delight to listen as they read their selected poems which reveal the emotional essence of love, intimacy and sexuality.
This summit offers an opportunity to receive AASECT CEUs.
Begins May 4, 2020. Register here.
**Calls for Proposals and Article Submissions**
Call for Proposals: Special Issue of Archives of Sexual Behavior on the Impact of COVID‑19 on Sexual Health and Behavior
Please see this document for further details on the types of proposals being solicited for publication in the Archives of Sexual Behavior. The deadline for proposals is May 20, 2020.
Journal of Feminist Family Therapy
As the incoming Editor (January 2021) of the Journal of Feminist Family Therapy, I wanted to encourage you to consider writing a manuscript of your SSTAR 2020 presentation/poster for submission. Please take a look at the journal (https://www.tandfonline.com/
I hope you are all safe and healthy,
Kristina S. Brown, PhD, LMFT
**Book and Article Announcements**
Magnificent Sex: Lessons from Extraordinary Lovers
by Peggy Kleinplatz & A. Dana Menard
What makes sex magnificent? What are the qualities of extraordinary erotic intimacy and what are the elements that help to bring it about? Is great sex the stuff that people remember nostalgically from the "honeymoon" phase of their relationships, or can sex improve over time?
Magnificent Sex is based on the largest, in-depth interview study ever conducted with people who are having extraordinary sex. It gathers the nuggets for remarkable sex from the "experts", distilling them into an attainable blueprint for ordinary lovers who want to make erotic intimacy grow over the course of a lifetime. Looking at factors including individual and relational qualities, empathic communication and the myths and realities of magnificent sex, this book offers accessible and evidence-based guidance for lovers and therapists alike.
It is replete with frank and often humorous interviews with straight and LGBTQ individuals and couples, those who are "vanilla" and "kinky", monogamous and consensually non-monogamous and healthy and chronically ill. This illuminating book explores the implications of the findings to develop a model that effectively tackles the common problems of low desire and frequency. The "cure" for low desire is to create desirable sex!
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Kleinplatz, P. J., Charest, M., Paradis, N., Ellis, M., Rosen, L., Ménard, A. D., & Ramsay, T. O. (2020). Treatment of Low Sexual Desire or Frequency Using a Sexual Enhancement Group Couples Therapy Approach. The Journal of Sexual Medicine.
Transforming Sexual Narratives: A Relational Approach to Sex Therapy
by Suzanne Iasenza
Transforming Sexual Narratives offers readers the opportunity to address complex sexual problems through Narrative Relational Sex Therapy (NRST), an original approach that Suzanne Iasenza has developed during twenty-five years of clinical practice.
This method presents a deeper, richer way of thinking about sexual challenges that has enabled clients to successfully rewrite their mistaken narratives to reclaim pleasure, intimacy, and satisfaction in their erotic lives. Drawing on the strengths of three very different therapeutic traditions — psychoanalytic, couple and family systems, and sex therapy — it delivers a fresh and dynamic way of understanding the complex interrelationship between personal, social, cultural, and familial sexual narratives. Chapters include conversations with diverse couples and individuals from all kinds of backgrounds and cultures, who exist in every kind of body, and in each case show how unconscious and harmful narratives can be transformed into healthy and pleasurable sex lives.
This essential guide will help therapists to identify their client’s secret sexual stories and enable them to rewrite their inner narratives and relationship with sexuality for the better. Sex therapists will be able to integrate a relational perspective into behavioral treatment, individual and couple therapists will be able to weave sexuality into general psychotherapy, and psychoanalysts will be able to use the sexual history to identify early dynamics that affect adult intimacy.
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