Abstract

Psychosexual therapy has undergone numerous developments since the introduction of behavioural therapy for sexual difficulties by Masters and Johnson in the 1960s. We argue that theory and practice from Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) offers a novel and relevant development to existing approaches to psychosexual theory and practice. CFT presents a theory driven, flexible, transdiagnostic and integrative way of understanding, formulating and treating general mental health problems. In this paper we propose that the underlying theory from CFT integrates well with existing approaches to psychosexual therapy, and offers some helpfulways of formulating sexual problems to present a coherent rationale for treatment strategies. We also argue that some additional CFT treatment strategies already used in general mental health settings are appropriate and helpful for those experiencing sexual difficulties. This paper outlines how CFT can be theoretically integrated with existing psychosexual therapy.

摘要

自 20 世纪 60 年代马斯特斯和约翰逊针对性困难引入行为疗法以来，性心理疗法经历了许多发展。我们认为，慈悲聚焦疗法（CFT）的理论和实践为现有的性心理理论和实践方法提供了新颖且相关的发展。CFT 提出了一种理论驱动、灵活、跨诊断和综合的方式来理解、阐述和治疗一般心理健康问题。在本文中，我们提出 CFT 的基本理论与现有的性心理治疗方法很好地结合起来，并提供了一些阐述性问题的有用方法，为治疗策略提供了连贯的基本原理。我们还认为，一些额外的 CFT 治疗策略已经在一般心理健康环境中使用，对于那些经历性困难的人来说是适当且有帮助的。本文概述了 CFT 如何在理论上与现有的性心理治疗相结合。