ABSTRACT
Integration in psychotherapy refers to taking into account various schools and models of therapy. Though many therapists purport to be practicing integrative models of sex therapy, they are in fact practicing technical eclecticism, only one element of the three in the process of integration. In technical eclecticism, various techniques of several models or systems of therapy are applied to a case “systematically and sequentially” (Stricker & Gold, 1996, p. 49). Though this approach is often used, it cannot truly be considered integration because it lacks guidance from a theoretical perspective. This is problematic because it is not connected with any framework that serves as a guide to predict and change human behavior.
