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Depathologizing Porn (A901) (Audio Only)


Average Rating:
   5
Faculty:
Joe Kort, PhD, LMSW |  Tammy Nelson, PhD
Duration:
3 Hours 56 Minutes
Format:
Audio Only
Copyright:
Jan 01, 2012
Product Code:
NPC095543
Media Type:
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Description

Learn how to help couples understand the meaning of porn use from each partner's perspective and negotiate a mutually satisfactory way to deal with it, when appropriate.

Even though Internet porn has become ubiquitous in our society, many still tend to view its use as a symptom of sexual addiction, marital infidelity, or a serious threat to the relationship. But there are multiple reasons that people use porn, and it can have many meanings.

  • A practical guide for helping couples face the crisis when a spouse discovers that the other spouse (usually the man) is secretly using pornography.
  • How to help couples depathologize the issue and investigate what it means.
  • The three basic reasons most men seek out porn, and potential problems associated with each.
  • Step-by-step instructions for helping the spouses develop empathy for each other and, finally, create a more differentiated sex life together.

Session 1:

  • Sex, Infidelity, and Internet Addiction: Is It a Relationship Issue?
  • Defining pornography, infidelity, and sexual addiction
  • Three reasons men go online • Masturbation
  • How paraphilias are a factor (20:1 male to female ratio)
  • Internet relationships
  • Differences between compulsion, addiction, and non-pathological pornography use
  • Sexual and emotional infidelity--differences for men and women, gays and straight
  • The triple-A engine of access, affordability, and anonymity of the Internet

Session 2:

  • Infidelity, Affairs, Monogamy
  • How women view porn and why
  • The stages of relationships
  • Defining infidelity and negotiating monogamy
  • The monogamy spectrum
  • The erotic curiosity spectrum
  • Compartmentalization
  • Secrecy versus privacy
  • Can porn help couples remain monogamous?
  • Courtship disorders
  • Erotic rage
  • Betrayal
  • Keeping secrets

Session 3:

  • Internet Addiction, Social Networking, Cheating Online
  • What is porn trauma?
  • What is sexual neglect?
  • Recovery from porn trauma and interpersonal sexual neglect
  • The three sexual scripts--procreative, relational, and recreational
  • Cracking the code of porn
  • Sexual cathexis to porn; what it looks like
  • Long-term affects of porn use
  • When is the relationship at risk?
  • Betrayal bonds
  • Trauma repetition

Session 4:

  • Treatment Interventions
  • Projections as the therapist
  • Therapist’s values
  • Transparency
  • Healthy porn, healthy sex
  • When porn is okay for men, women, or couples
  • Why are some men interested in fantasies that don’t include their wives?
  • When to intervene
  • What does recovery look like?
  • Individual recovery, couple recovery
  • Erotic recovery
  • Follow the erotica road
  • Opportunity for differentiation

Credit


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NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after completing the on-line post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). 

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Faculty

Joe Kort, PhD, LMSW's Profile

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Joe Kort, PhD, LMSW, is a board-certified sexologist and the founder of The Center for Relationship and Sexual Health, and runs a private practice in Royal Oak, Michigan. Dr. Kort, a therapist, coach and author, has been practicing psychotherapy for more than 38 years and has spoken internationally on the subject of gay counseling. He specializes in sex therapy, LGBTQ affirmative psychotherapy, sexually compulsive behaviors, and IMAGO relationship therapy designed for couples to enhance their relationship through improved communication. Dr. Kort is a blogger for the Huffington Post and Psychology Today on issues of sexuality. He has been a guest on the various television programs on mixed orientation marriages and “sexual addiction”. Dr. Kort is the author of several books, including, LGBTQ Clients in Therapy, 10 Smart Things Gay Men Can Do to Find Real Love, and Is My Husband Gay, Straight or Bisexual.  

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Joe Kort maintains a private practice and has an employment relationship with Modern Sex Therapy Institutes. He receives royalties as a published author, and he receives a speaking honorarium and book and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Joe Kort is a member of the National Association of Social Workers, the Institute for Imago Relationship Therapy, and the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists.


Tammy Nelson, PhD's Profile

Tammy Nelson, PhD Related seminars and products


Tammy Nelson, Ph.D., is an internationally acclaimed psychotherapist, Board Certified Sexologist, Certified Sex Therapist, and Certified Imago Relationship Therapist. She has been a therapist for almost 30 years and is the executive director of the Integrative Sex Therapy Institute. She started the institute to develop courses for psychotherapists as the need grew for certified, integrated postgraduate sex and couple’s therapists in a growing field of mental health consumers who need more complex interventions for their relationship needs.

Dr. Tammy is a TEDx speaker, Psychotherapy Networker Symposium speaker and the author of several books, including Getting the Sex You Want: Shed Your Inhibitions and Reach New Heights of Passion Together (Quiver, 2008) and the best-selling The New Monogamy: Redefining Your Relationship After Infidelity (New Harbinger, 2013), as well as When You’re the One Who Cheats: Ten Things You Need to Know (RL Publishing Corp., 2019) and the upcoming Integrative Sex and Couples Therapy (PESI, 2020).

She has been a featured expert in New York Times Magazine, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Rolling Stone magazine, TIME Magazine, Redbook, Glamour, The Sun, and The London Times. She is the host of a popular podcast on iTunes, “The Trouble with Sex”, and writes for the Huffington Post, YourTango, ThriveGlobal, and medium.com. Dr. Tammy can be followed on her blog, www.drtammynelson.com/blog.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Tammy Nelson maintains a private practice and is executive director and primary faculty at Integrated Sex Therapy Training Institute (ISTI) and has an employment relationship with Daybreak University. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc., and she additionally receives royalties from New Harbinger and Sounds True. She is a paid consultant for Evergreen Certifications. Dr. Nelson has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Tammy Nelson serves on the board of advisors for the World Association of Sex Coaches. She is a member of the American Art Therapy Association, American Association of Sex Educators, Sex Counselors, and Sex Therapists (AASECT), American Comprehensive Energy Psychology Association (ACEP), American Counseling Association, American Family Therapy Academy, American Family Therapy Association (AFTA), American Psychological, Association (APA), Big Tent Ketamine group (BTK), Connecticut Counselors, Imago Relationships International Association of Professional and Certified Therapists, International Board of Sexologists, International Institute for Sexuality and Human Development, Nonfiction Authors Association, Society Scientific Study Sexuality (SSSS), and the Society for Sex Therapy and Research (SSTAR).


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