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Suzanne Iasenza, Ph.D. presents “The Impact of Childhood Trauma on Sexuality”
(Held Virtually on Zoom)
Presentation Summary:
Sexual difficulties in adulthood can ofter be traced back to past childhood trauma including shame that ofter accompanies trauma, This workshop will provide a theoretical understanding as well as clinical techniques in working with sexuality concerns of survivors of childhood trauma. Case material will be discussed.
Presenter:
Suzanne Iasenza, PhD is on the faculties of the Adelphi University Derner Institute’s Postgraduate Program in Psychoanalysis, and the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy (ICP), where she is Co-Founder of the Sex Therapy Training Program (STP). She also teaches at the Ackerman Institute for the Family, the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and the Family Institute of Westchester. She maintains a private practice in psychotherapy and sex therapy in New York. Her latest book, Transforming Sexual Narratives: A Relational Approach to Sex Therapy recently received an award for exceptional merit from the Society for Sex Therapy and Research.
Learning Objectives:
1. Discuss how to create a sage therapeutic environment for survivors.
2. Describe the central role of shame for survivors.
3. Describe the use of a culturally sensitive relational sexual history to assess and treat childhood trauma.
ACCME Accreditation Statement: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and The Florida Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA Credit Designation Statement: The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of 3 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Disclosure Statement: The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME’s identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.
