Sexuality is an aspect of the human being which raises questions and captivation. The will to understand the different components it is formed of, just as a unique object of curiosity and interest, has led to the creation of a specific scientific discipline : sexology. The Sexocorporel which Jean-Yves Desjardins has developed and taught is to be found in the urge to understand and intellectualize human sexuality. It is a therapeutic sexology approach based on a model of sexual health inspired from the WHO standards and relying on scientific studies corroborated by clinical observations carried out during over 40 years.

The Sexocorporel proposes an all-comprehensive and rigorous sexoclinical evaluation which helps to establish an accurate diagnosis. It is thus possible to build an efficient treatment plan

This treatment aims at concretely and rapidly meeting the expectations of the women, the men and the couples who wish to reach a more satisfying sexual and personal life.


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Professor Jean-Yves Desjardins has been a psychologist and a clinic sexologist for over 40 years. He has dedicated his life to the study of human sexuality. His reflexion about this subject started when he was still a young theologian. After studying different subjects during several years he decided to focus his work on clinical sexology. According to Pr. Desjardins sexology was a science apart and that is why in the course of the years he made one of his dreams come true when co-founding with Claude Crépault what was to become the sexology department of Quebec University in Montreal (UQAM)www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/sexologie.


Pr. Desjardins has developed the Sexocorporel based on his researches and clinical observations. This pattern of sexual health was taught at the UQAM from 1968 to 1988 when Pr. Desjardins retired from the University. Afterwards he kept teaching in Quebec and in Europe in order to increase the circulation of the Sexocorporel. In the course of the 80s and along with his clinical and universitary career Pr. Desjardins worked a lot developing different didactic and audiovisual tools (see the list hereafter). During over 4 years he daily led a radio broadcast on CKAC. He thus helped promote the sexology knowledge widely to the public. At the same time he also held hundreds of very successfull conferences called “ Vivre en amour “ (“ Living in love”) throughout Quebec. Thanks to these conferences, he was able to reach hundreds of thousand men and women who were looking for concrete tools to improve their sexual and love life.


The Sexocorporel has structured and precised all through the years thanks to the help of many contributors in Quebec and in France. We will particularly stress on what Dr François de Carufel and Dr Claude Roux-Deslandes have brought. They have worked many years to structure and schematize the different concepts of the Sexocorporel.

Here are some elements to be found in Pr. Jean-Yves Desjardins’ professionnal and academic career :

Diplomas and universitary titles :

• PhD in sacred music (1959)
• MA in theology (1960)
• MA in psychology (1964)
• PhD in criminology (1970)

Professionnal career and achievement :

• Sex therapist (since 1965)
• Co-founder of the sexology department at the University of Quebec in Montreal (1968)
• Full professor in the sexology department at the University of Quebec in Montreal (from 1968 to 1988)
• Radio host (beginning of the 80s)
• Editor of the weekly � Living in love Ÿ (beginning of the 80s)
• General audience lecturer – Over 400 conferences dealing with love and sexuality which have attracted nearly 400 000 attenders in Canada (between 1980 and 1982). – Leader of workshops � Living in love Ÿ in Canada (since 1988) and overseas in the following countries : Belgium, France, Italy, Morocco, Switzerland (since 1990).
• Clinical instructor of the Sexocorporel (since 1990) - in the following countries : Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Morocco, Switzerland.

Involvement in Associations, Colleges and professionnal institutes :

• Member of the psychologists’ college in Quebec
• Tenured member of the AIHUS (Inter hospital-university Association of Sexology).
• Founding president of the CISS (International college of specialized sexotherapists )
• Honorary president of the ISI (Jean-Yves Desjardins Sexocorporel International Institute)

Publication of books :

• The myth of the solitary sin (Desjardins – Crépault), 1969
• Erotic complementarity (Desjardins – Crépault), 1978
• Man erotism (Desjardins), 1980
• Woman erotism (Desjardins), 1980
• Erotism everyday (Desjardins), 1980
• Erotic bodies (Desjardins – Crépault), 1981
  

Video and film productions :

• Your sex and the other (record for children from 10 to 12), 1969
• Judith and Pierre (for teenagers), 1972
• Erotic language : Paul and Hélène I, 1976
• The language of the bodies : Paul and Hélène II, 1976
• Clara and François ( senior erotism ), 1976
• Woman erotism, 1976
• Half-body (paraplegic), 1978
• Love, erotism and pregnancy, 1978
• Love, erotism and child, 1979
• Man erotism, 1980
• South wind,
• Erotic bodies, 1981
• Erotism and the ages of life, 1981
• Ejaculatory control : a love story, 1996

Theoretical foundations

- Fundamental unity :

What we call fundamental unity is the inseparable link body-brain / brain-body. Every perception, emotion and cognition (implicit body) finds its concomitant reflexion on the neurophysiological level (explicit body) and vice versa. That is what we call the mirror-body. As the great philosopher St-Thomas of Aquin put it at the end of the 15th century : � nihil intellectu nisi prius in sensu Ÿ, which means : � nothing aware is not first felt Ÿ. On appelle unicité fondamentale le lien indissociable corps-cerveau / cerveau-corps. Toute perception, émotion et cognition (corps implicite) a son reflet concomitant au plan neurophysiologique (corps explicite) et vice versa. C’est ce que nous appelons, le corps-miroir. Comme le disait si bien le grand philosophe St-Thomas d’Aquin à la fin du 15e siècle : « nihil intellectu nisi prius in sensu » qui veut dire « rien dans la conscience qui ne passe d’abord par les sens ».

- Pattern of sexual health :

The Sexocorporel is a model of sexual health taking into account all the components involved in human sexuality. Sexual health is defined as the birth, the development, the integration and the harmonization of the different components interacting within human sexuality.

Here are the different components of human sexuality:

1. Fundamental component :

Sexual identity linked to anatomy (male, female).

4. Cognitive components :

Knowledge, ideologies, systems of thoughts, attitudes, codifications, value judgements and idealizations.

5. Relational components :

Love and erotic communication, feeling of love, seduction and erotic skills.

An innovative model

A lot of people consider the Sexocorporel as a global and scientific model of sexual health because the knowledge regarding sexuality is so accurate and detailed and that the treatment plans which are proposed are so efficient. This sexological model is innovative and aims at guiding men and women towards an erotic acting that would be satisfying on both personal and relational levels.

Here is the particular contribution of the Sexocorporel to clinical sexology :