In this day-long in-person workshop, Linsey Blair will explore the ways in which psychoanalytic thought can be applied to the sexual relationship.
Linsey is a sex therapist with a psychoanalytic predisposition, and views a couple’s sexual relationship as the projective stage for their shared internal conflict. In this view, sex is the place that unconscious phantasies meet, dovetail and – often in the case of sexual dysfunctions – harden into a belief. It is the place where object relations come alive.
Through a mixture of presentations and work in small groups, and using clinical material to illustrate her thinking, Linsey will explore the ways in which the sexual relationship and sexual dysfunction can be thought about psychoanalytically. She will discuss the impact of breaks during early mother/infant mirroring, during negotiation of the oedipal situation and later during adolescence on eventual adult sexual integration, and clinical approaches to these difficulties using a combination of psychodynamic and psychosexual techniques.
There will be the opportunity for attendees to discuss Linsey’s thinking as well as to bring their own clinical material. The event will be of interest to psychosexual therapists who want to learn more about psychoanalytic approaches and to psychoanalytically trained therapists who would like to think in more detail about sexual dysfunction.
