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Study Course Description

Sexology and Sexopathology

Main Study Course Information

Course Code

RPH_057

Branch of Science

Anatomy; Clinical medicine

ECTS

5.00

Target Audience

Medicine

LQF

Level 8

Study Course Implementer

Course Supervisor

Artūrs Utināns

Residency Speciality

Speciality

Psychotherapist

Supervisor of Medical Speciality

Artūrs Utināns

Contacts

About Study Course

Objective

Acquire knowledge and skills in sexology and sexopathology in compliance with the qualification of psychotherapist and psychosomatic medicine practitioner; acquire knowledge about normal human sexuality and most common sexual disorders caused by mental factors.

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge

1.Characterisation of normal sexuality and clinic of sexual disorders, diagnostics and differential diagnosis, possible treatment.

Skills

1.Analyse a specific clinical case and elaborate treatment tactics.

Competences

1.Example-based knowledge, skills and attitude essential for working at a hospital and for research, raising public awareness via media; understanding of a team-work (work in groups) and its functions, psycho-dynamics, crisis situations and their solution; as well as the ability to manage the work of a multi-disciplinary team and be part of such team, supervise doctors and medical staff.

Assessment

Individual work

Title	% from total grade	Grade
1. Individual work	-	-
Examination of patients with sexual disorder. Essay.

Examination

Title	% from total grade	Grade
1. Examination	-	-
Resident expresses his/her knowledge and clinical/psychodynamic thinking, applying to sexual disorder.
2. Examination	-	-
The final assessment consists of a written exam on one of the topics covered in the study course.

Study Course Theme Plan

FULL-TIME

Part 1

Seminar

Modality	Location
On site	Auditorium

Topics

Normal sexuality, masturbation, male and female sexual reaction cycle, sexual dysfunction, options of pharmaceutical and psychotherapeutic treatment.

Seminar

Modality	Location
-	-

Topics

Formation of homosexual identity. Homosexuality, homosexual behavior, types of homosexuality. Constant and significant distress due to sexual orientation.

Seminar

Modality	Location
-	-

Topics

Sexual dysfunction in somatic patients. Pharmacological preparations acting on sexual function. Cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy in patients with sexual dysfunction.

Seminar

Modality	Location
-	-

Topics

Sexual pain syndromes. Dyspareunia (pain during intercourse), vaginismus. Innocent marriage. Postcoital dysphoria and headache. Orgasmic anhedonia.

Seminar

Modality	Location
-	-

Topics

Psychodynamic psychotherapy in patients with sexual dysfunction.

Seminar

Modality	Location
-	-

Topics

Paraphilias. Their classification and treatment options.

Total ECTS (Creditpoints):

5.00

Number of Residency Seminars:

Length (weeks):

Final Examination:

Residency exam (Theory and practice)

Bibliography

Required Reading

Charlotte Morris (Anthology Editor), Paul Boyce (Anthology Editor), Andrea Cornwall (Anthology Editor), Hannah Frith (Anthology Editor), Laura Harvey (Anthology Editor), Yingying Huang (Anthology Editor), Researching Sex and Sexualities. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.

Todd K. Shackelford, Ranald D. Hansen. The Evolution of Sexuality. Springer, 2015.

Sexualities: contemporary psychoanalytic perspectives / edited by Alessandra Lemma and Paul E. Lynch. 2015, Routledge.

Danielle Knafo and Rocco Lo Bosco. The Age of Perversion. Desire and Technology in Psychoanalysis and Culture. 2017, Routledge.

John M. Hutson, Garry L. Warne, Sonia R. Grover. Disorders of Sex Development. An Integrated Approach to Management. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2012.

Richard Balon, R.Tylor Segraves. Handbook of Sexual Dysfunction. Tylor & Francis Group, 2005.

Additional Reading

Martha S. Rosenthal. Human Sexuality. From Cells to Society. 2013. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.

William L. Maurice. Sexual Medicine in Primary Care. e‑Book 2019 International Psychotherapy Institute.

Battling the life and death forces of sadomasochism. Clinical Perspectives. Edited by Harriet I. Basseches, Paula L. Ellman and Nancy R. Goodman. 2013, Karnac Books Ltd.

The world of perversion: psychoanalysis and the impossible absolute of desire / James Penney. 2006, State University of New York.

PEerversion. Psychoanalytic Perspectives/ Perspectives on Psychoanalysis / ed. Dany Nobus and Lisa Downing. Karnac, 2006.

Handbook of Gender Research in Psychology / Joan C. Chrisler. Donald R. McCreary. Springer, 2010.

Handbook of sexual and gender identity disorders / edited by David L. Rowland, Luca Incrocci. 2008, by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Jane Naismith, Sandra Grant. Seminars in the psychotherapies 2007.

Briedite I., Ancane G., Teibe U. Incidence and structure of female sexual dysfunction in gynecology clinic. 26th IUSTI Europe congress, Riga, Latvia, September 2011.

10.

Ieva Briedīte, Gunta Ancāne, Uldis Teibe. Ginekoloģisko pacienšu seksuālās funkcijas novērtējums. RSU 2011.g. 10. zinātniskā konference, Rīga, Latvija, Aprīlis 2011.

11.

Briedite I., Ancane G., Teibe U. Assessment of sexual function of gynecological patients. Journal of Sexual medicine, Blackwell Publishing Inc, Vol.8, No.3, 270, 2011.

12.

The handbook of sexuality in close relationships / edited by John H. Harvey, Amy Wenzel, Susan Sprecher. 2004 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

13.

Handbook of the New Sexuality Studies. Edited by Steven Seidman, Nancy Fischer, Chet Meeks. 2006, Routledge.

14.

David M. Buss. The Evolution of Desire. Basic Books, 2003.

15.

R. Balon, ed. Sexual Dysfunction: The Brain-Body Connection. Karger, 2008.

16.

Ilka Quindeau. Seduction and desire. The Psychoanalytic Theory of Sexuality since Freud. 2013, Karnac Books Ltd