ABSTRACT

The psychodynamically oriented sex therapy approach to psychogenic disorders of sexual desire is a brief form of treatment that combines behavioral/cognitive concepts and techniques with psychodynamic interventions. More specifically, therapeutically structured sexual interactions in the form of behavioral “homework assignments” are used to modify the immediate cause(s) of the patient’s deficient libido, and these are integrated with brief, active psychodynamically oriented explorations of the couple’s deeper emotional problems and their resistances to treatment (Kaplan, 1974, 1979, 1987, 1995).