Draft for Revista Sperimentale di Freniatria, CXXX(1), 2006 Constructionist Provocations for Therapeutic Conversations about Sexuality
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In this article I attempt to deconstruct our dominant discourse about sexuality, with special emphasis on sexuality as a topic within the psychotherapeutic context. As a social constructionist, my concern is with the ways in which people coordinate their activities together to produce particular beliefs and values (otherwise referred to as “realities”). The beliefs and values we articulate concerning sexuality, then, are not universally or objectively true. Instead, they are constructed byproducts of social relationships which are historically, culturally, and locally situated. What is central, to the constructionist, in both the case of psychotherapy and sexuality, is the issue of meaning; the meaning of both psychotherapy and of sexuality. I offer a very brief overview of the individualist tradition that dominates the profession of psychotherapy, followed by an overview of the constructionist alternative to individualism and end with some implications for our understanding and practice of psychotherapy as it relates to the issue of sexuality.
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