For a new psychological theory of sexuality

Journal title PNEI REVIEW
Author/s Laura Vaccaro, Francesco Bottaccioli, Antonia Carosella, Ines Romy Cutrona, Rossana Terni, Marina Amore, Laura Bastianelli, Alessandro Bianchi, Raffaella Cardone, Simona Cristofaro, Michele Curcio, Donatella De Colle, Patrizia Di Berardino, Gianangelo Palo, Enrica Pedrelli, Rosario Savino, Emanuela Stoppele
Publishing Year 2024 Issue 2024/2
Language Italian Pages 24 P. 7-30 File size 218 KB
DOI 10.3280/PNEI2024-002002
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Since Freud and early psychoanalysis, there has been little psychological theorising on sexuality. A blind spot, therefore, left in fact to the management of individual psychotherapists. No small paradox for psychology and its clinical applications given the enormous importance given to the relationship by all psychotherapeutic approaches. Relationships, in fact, are the main cause (and cure) of psychological suffering and what is sexuality if not a particular way of relating between human beings? What theories drive the clinical work of psychologists in this field? What sexual education is proposed that is not merely a lecture on the biology of reproduction? How can the subject of sexuality once again become central to a broader reflection on the human being, which does not only sporadically concern the controversial political debate on a group of people who are still struggling to see their civil rights regarding sexual identity recognised? These questions have oriented the research and debate of the SIPNEI National Commission on Mental Disciplines, which proposes to the psi world a document that ranges from an examination of traditional theories to recent ones, to the current debate on gender, sex, and the rights of LGBTQIA+ people. This document follows the Commission’s publication of a general text framing the psychological sciences and psychotherapeutic and psychiatric practices within the paradigm of Psychoneuroendocrineimmunology (Bastianelli, Bianchi, Bottaccioli et al. Pnei Review 1/2021: 12-69, downloadable free of charge from the publisher’s website)

Keywords: Patriarchy, Androarchy, Biological sex, Gender, Identity, Sexual desire

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Laura Vaccaro, Francesco Bottaccioli, Antonia Carosella, Ines Romy Cutrona, Rossana Terni, Marina Amore, Laura Bastianelli, Alessandro Bianchi, Raffaella Cardone, Simona Cristofaro, Michele Curcio, Donatella De Colle, Patrizia Di Berardino, Gianangelo Palo, Enrica Pedrelli, Rosario Savino, Emanuela Stoppele, Per una nuova teoria psicologica della sessualità in "PNEI REVIEW" 2/2024, pp 7-30, DOI: 10.3280/PNEI2024-002002