Recorded workshop available via video on demand
AASECT Category:
Sex Therapy Education
Section C
4 CE Hours
Presented by: Stephen Snyder, MD
Recorded workshop available via video on demand
AASECT Category:
Sex Therapy Education
Section C
$140.00
4 CE Hours
Presented by: Stephen Snyder, MD
Recorded workshop available via video on demand
AASECT Category:
Sex Therapy Education
Section C
$140.00
Women and men tend to differ in important ways — psychologically, culturally, and erotically. These differences tend to figure prominently in the problems that bring heterosexual couples to sex therapy. In this workshop, we’ll discuss the ordinary erotic differences between women and men; differences in male and female psychosexual development; key cultural scripts governing male and female erotic experience; and the expectable frustrations of heterosexual life. We’ll examine how a gender-sensitive approach, informed by a knowledge of male-female differences, can improve assessment and treatment for the most common sexual problems experienced by heterosexual couples. Case examples will be used throughout.
Learning Objectives:
Activity Schedule:
9:00 – 10:00 We’ll look critically at “unisex” approaches to sex therapy; review the many reasons why gender is a difficult (and dangerous) subject; discuss the ordinary erotic differences between men and women; examine key differences in the psychosexual development of men and women; and relate all the above to the clinical situation of working with male-female couples in sex therapy.
10:00 – 10:40 Most heterosexual couples follow highly scripted male and female roles. Failure of one or both partners to satisfy their roles ordinarily leads to anxiety and distress. We’ll discuss how this “conventional script” for heterosexual mating puts different pressures on men and women in couples, and specific dilemmas that can occur when partners fail to follow the conventional script.
10:40 – 11:00 Q+A
11:00 – 12:00 Male-female relationships are inherently frustrating. We’ll discuss the ordinary erotic frustrations of heterosexual life; common sexual miscommunications, sexual conundrums, and sexual impasses between women and men; and male neuro-atypicality and its impact on female partners. We’ll also look at the infantile roots of men’s emotional masochism and discuss strategies for resolving it.
12:00 – 12:45 Finally, we’ll apply the conceptual tools developed in the previous three hours to the assessment and treatment of the most common sexual problems in male-female couples. We’ll discuss gender-sensitive assessment and treatment for male and female arousal difficulties, ED, premature ejaculation, difficulty reaching orgasm, and loss of desire.
12:45 – 1:00 Q+A and conclude
Speaker bio:
Stephen Snyder, M.D., is an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, a guest on major media outlets nationwide, and a regular contributor to The Huffington Post. His new book, Love Worth Making: How to Have Ridiculously Great Sex in a Long-Lasting Relationship, (St Martin’s Press 2018) has been hailed by women’s health guru Dr Christiane Northrup as “Hands down, the most practical, fun, and empowering book I’ve ever read on how to have a fabulous sex life in a committed relationship.”
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