« Sexocorporel » PROGRAM
Introduction
« Sexocorporel » has been developed at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM) by
Professor Jean-Yves Desjardins since the 70’s. It is based on precise clinical
observations including the latest scientific
knowledge, observations and experiences carried out among students in good
sexual health and studies of the body expression among healthy volunteers. It
relies on a concept of sexual health based on a global and integrative vision
of the different components of sexuality : identity, physiology,
intrapsychism (sexodynamics), cognition and relational aspect. This integration
takes place in the human body.
« Sexocorporel » enables the therapist and other persons working in domains linked to
human sexuality and any person interested in this knowledge to understand human
sexuality (including genitality) with efficient investigation and intervention
tools to improve or restore the sexuality of the patients who want it, or to
teach about it, for instance during sexual education classes.
This programme defines the different steps of the
training which are necessary to become a
ISI « Sexocorporel »
clinician sex therapist. The specific curriculae will be defined
later on in other domains such as sexual education.
The « Sexocorporel » training is divised
into three levels of study :
1st level : Basic studies in ISI
« Sexocorporel » clinical sex therapy
2nd level : Advanced
studies in ISI « Sexocorporel » clinical sex therapy
3rd level : Studies of
ISI « Sexocorporel » clinical sex therapist
Objectives of the
« Sexocorporel » training
Thanks to the clinical and scientific knowlege the
participants will have received in clinical sex therapy, they will be able to
widen their practice in this new domain. The complete
training gives access to the profession of ISI clinician sex therapist.
Regarding the first two sessions
of the 1st level (personal development) :
Any person working in domains linked to bio-psycho-social
professions (psychiatrist, doctor, physiotherapist, psychomotor therapist,
psychologist, urologist, gyneacologist, surgeon, specialized nurse, social
worker, marriage counselor) where one may meet persons or couples with sexual difficulties may apply
for the training.
Other professionals may be admitted by way of an
exception if they ask for (personal development), but they won’t get any
certification.
Regarding the clinical sessions
(3rd to 7th sessions) of the 1st level :
Any person who works in domains linked to
bio-psycho-socio-medical professions and and who has taken the first two
sessions and who would like to improve his/her knowledge in clinical sex
therapy with a recognized training and who wants to undergo the knowledge and
abilities which are necessary to the « Sexocorporel »
clinical practice may apply.
On particular requirement, other professionals may be
admitted by way of an exception, but then restrictions will be made regarding
the further professional practice.
Payment in case of absence to the
training
We expect at least 90 % of the hours of a level to be
paid. In case of force majeure (disease, accident), the attendee will be
allowed to make up the time he will have missed during another training.
Certification exams
They will be validated by two teachers, one of them
not being part of the local training.
Recommended
literature
Audette Nicole: "Atteindre l'extase. Grâce à
l'Approche Sexocorporelle". Editions logiques. Canada, 2005.
Chatton D, Desjardins J-Y, Desjardins L, Tremblay M. La
sexologie clinique basée sur un modèle de santé sexuelle. Psychothérapies 2005;
25(1): 3-19.
Crépault Claude, Desjardins Jean-Yves: "La
complémentarité érotique". NOVACOM, 1978.
Desjardins J-Y. Approche intégrative et sexocorporelle.
Sexologies 1996; 5(21): 43-48.
Desjardins J-Y. L'approche sexocorporelle (Fondements
théoriques et champs d'application). Psychothérapies 1986(1): 51-58.
Desjardins Jean-Yves, Crépault Claude: "Le mythe du
péché solitaire". Les Editions de l'Homme, Québec, 1969.
Lowen Alexander: "Le Langage du Corps". Tchou,
Le corps à vivre, 1977.
Lowen Alexander: "Le Bonheur Sexuel (Amour et
orgasme)". Tchou, Le corps à vivre, 1979.
Lowen Alexander: « Lecture et langage du corps », Les éditions
Saint-Yves inc (C.P. 9638 STE FOY, Qc GIV 4C2), 1995.
Masters WH, Johnson VE: "Les réactions
sexuelles". Robert Laffont, Paris, 1966.
Reich Wilhelm: "La fonction de l'orgasme".
L'Arche Editeur Paris, 1970.
Recommended
videograms
« Erotisme au féminin », « Erotisme au
masculin », « Les corps
érotiques », « Le contrôle éjaculatoire - Une histoire
d’amour », « Amour érotisme et grossesse ».
The
theoretical content is build following the same programme within each
level :
Session 1: Development of the personal
knowledge and abilities in sexual physiology
· Theoretical presentation:
- Theoretical basis compared to an interactive (between its
different components), developmental and integrative vision of the human sexual
tension.
- Presentation of the model of sexual functionality (sexual
health).
- Presentation of the « Sexocorporel »
linked to the model of sexual functionality.
· Sexual health and physiological
programming, the function of sexual
excitement : modes, sources, specificity of this function for men and women,
process of sexualization.
· Initiation to the basic body abilities,
and integrated abilities linked to the « Sexocorporel ».
- Basic body abilities . Based on the laws of the body : rhythms,
muscular intensity, space, movement, breathing, centration, posture, gait.
- Integrated body abilities : fluidity, reflex double-tilting,
letting go, orgastic discharge.
· Initiation to modeling: reading the body, mirror body.
Session 2:
Development of the personal and relational sexodynamic knowledge and abilities
· Sexual health and sexodynamic
programming.
· Initiation to basic and integrated erotic
abilities :
- Initiation to the development of basic erotic abilities :
voluptuousness, rise and increase of pleasure, letting go, orgasmic or
emotional discharge.
- Initiation to the integrated erotic abilities and to their
integration in sexodynamics (sense of belonging to one’s biological sex,
sexual intrusivity and receptivity): sexual desire, erotic imagination, codes
of sexual attraction, sexual agressivity, sexual assertivity, seduction,
communication and relational erotic acting.
· Cognitive abilities.
· Initiation to « Sexocorporel » reading (mirror body)
· How to understand and evaluate the different sexual difficulties, be they biomedical, physiological and sexodynamic or linked to the
scientific model of « Sexocorporel » sexual health.
Session 3:
Clinical training – 1st part
· How to run a sexoclinical evaluation : model of evaluation.
· Reading the body (mirror body) and what it reveals regarding the patient’s sexodynamics.
· Evaluation of the sexodynamics.
· Evaluation of the function of sexual
excitement: expression, modes of sexual excitement, integration
to intrapsychics
· Models of sexoclinical treatment : rapid ejaculation, premature ejaculation, anorgasmy and anorgastia,
female coital anorgasmy.
· Advanced « Sexocorporel »
reading abilities.
Session
4: Clinical training – 2nd
part
· Prognosis according to the evaluation and treatment plan.
· Models of sexoclinical treatment : primary and secondary erectile dysfunctions, disorders of the sexual
desire and of the male and female coital sexual desire, impotentia ejaculation,
vaginismus due to phobies or to anxiety, seduction troubles (heterosocial and
heterosexual abilities).
· « Sexocorporel »
therapeutic techniques and clinical
cases.
· Advanced « Sexocorporel »
reading abilities.
Session
5: Clinical training – 3rd
part
· Theoretical and sexoclinical retargeting.
· Disorders linked to the sense of
belonging to one’s biological sex:
ambivalences, ambiguities (men with feminoid components or women with
masculinoid components on the point of view of dress and gesture and voice
stereotypes up to inversion (transsexualism)).
· Disorders linked to the restrictive
codes of sexual attraction: ego-dystonic homosexuality, transvestism, fetichist, fetichism, pedophilia, exhibitionism,
domination-submission, sadomasochism, etc.
· Advancing of the « Sexocorporel »
reading abilities.
Session
6: Clinical training – 4rth part
· Theoretical and sexoclinical retargeting.
· Disorders linked to sexual compulsivity : compulsive pedophilia, sexual insatiability, womanizing, pornomania,
erotomania, hyperromanticism.
· Related treatments : sexual violence, uncontroled angers, boulimia, (evaluations and
protocoles of initial treatments).
· Advancing of the « Sexocorporel »
reading abilities.
· Review of the concepts, consolidations, clinical questions.
Session
7:
Self evaluations, theoretical retargeting
· Theoretical and sexoclinical retargeting.
· Personal and professional self evaluation
TRAINING LEVELS
1st level: Basic
studies in ISI « Sexocorporel » clinical sex therapy
General
objectives :
- Know the theoretical foundations of the « Sexocorporel » scientific model.
- Master the abilities encouraging the development of the function of
sexual excitement and the function of pleasure.
- Integrate these abilities to the
personal and relational erotic life.
Specific objectives:
·
Knowledge:
- Know and understand the intrapsychic and physiologic interaction involved in the human sexual tension.
- Know and understand the different modes of sexual excitement along with the sources of sexual excitement in the evolution of
the human sexual tension.
- Know the nature and role of the experiences in sexuality.
- Know and understand the numerous interactions involved in the different sexual disorders.
·
Physiologic abilities:
- Master the different types of
breathing.
- Dissociate the movements of the body.
- Develop variations based on the reflex double-tilting.
- Make variations of the posture.
- Feel the levels of muscular
tension.
- Raise awareness about the sensorial, emotional and symbolical elements linked to breathing, to movement, to the muscular tension and to the
posture as well as to the integrated abilities : spreading and channelling
of the sexual excitement, letting go and surrender to sexual pleasure.
·
Concerning sexodynamic abilities:
- Raise awareness about the key
elements and the limits to be found within each of the sexodynamic
components interacting in the human sexual tension.
- Improve each of the sexodynamic
components : sexual pleasure, sexual desire, codes of sexual attraction,
sexual assertivity, sexual agressivity, sense of belonging to one’s biological
sex, sexual intrusivity and receptivity.
- Feel the links between the quality
of the function of sexual excitement and the quality of the
personal and relational erotic life.
·
Cognitive abilities :
- Acquire the basic scientific knowledge (sexual development, sexual functioning, etc.).
- Be able to understand the different systems
of thought and ideology regarding human sexuality, understand their key
elements and their limits.
·
Sexoclinical intervention :
- Initiation to body reading.
- Initiation to the body
structuring of the sexual tension and to the intrapsychic significations
of body dynamics.
- Initiation to the objectives,
contents, activities and sequential organization of the treatments.
- Initiation to the therapeutic techniques peculiar to the different « Sexocorporel »
treatments based on the function of sexual excitement up to the sense of
belonging to one’s biological sex.
Theoretical content of the
sessions:
It corresponds to the content mentioned in the general
presentation of the approach (before-mentioned to 2 before-mentioned).
We encourage the attendees to the 1str
level to call on the teachers and the 3rd level attendees for any
question regarding the training (process and content).
Certification
Self evaluation
Exams
Observations by the teachers all
along the training
Attendance
Certificate
« Basic studies certificate in clinical sex
therapy». Any practice in clinical sex therapy will have to be « Sexocorporel » supervised.
The supervision will be processed by an ISI certified supervisor.
2nd level: Advanced
studies in ISI « Sexocorporel » clinical sex therapy
General objectives :
- Broaden the knowledge regarding the
theoretical foundations of the « Sexocorporel ».
- Become able to observe and listen objectively to somebody.
- Develop the understanding of the clinical situations as far as the logic
of the system is concerned.
Specific objectives:
·
Theoretical knowledge :
- Integrate the links and interactions between the different components
of the model of sexual health
·
Physiological abilities :
- Master the observation of the body through the learning of « Sexocorporel » abilities including : types of breathing, centration, posture, muscular
tensions, rhythms, amplitude of the movements, dissociation of the body
movements, reflex double-tilting, etc.
·
Sexodynamic abilities :
- Broaden the knowledge regarding each
of the sexodynamic components: sexual pleasure, sexual desire, codes of
sexual attraction, sexual assertivity, sexual agressivity, sense of belonging
to one’s biological sex, sexual intrusivity and receptivity.
- Know the links between the quality of
the function of sexual excitement and the quality of the personal and relational
erotic life.
·
Cognitive abilities:
- Broaden the scientific knowledge in this field (sexual development, sexual functioning, etc.).
·
Regarding the sexoclinical intervention :
- Master body reading.
- Broaden the knowledge regarding the evaluation of the « Sexocorporel » and relational aspects.
- Broaden the knowledge regarding the analysis of the body structuring of the sexual tension and bring out the
intrapsychic significations of body dynamics.
- Know the objectives, contents,
activities and the sequential organization of the treatments.
- Broaden the knowledge regarding the sex therapeutic techniques peculiar to the different « Sexocorporel »
treatments, based on the function of sexual excitement up to the
feeling of belonging to one’s biological sex.
Theoretical content of the
sessions:
It corresponds to the content mentioned in the general
presentation of the approach (before-mentioned to 2 before-mentioned).
The students attend to the 2nd level as
observers of 1str level attendees. They work in sub-groups with a
teacher to learn how to read the body and how to listen objectively. During
each session the students present their observations within the sub-groups. On
the last session they present a summary of the evolution of the persons
observed.
Certification:
Exams
Objectification ability in body
reading
Observations by the teachers during the training
Supervisions/intervisions
Certificate:
« Certificate of advanced studies in ISI « Sexocorporel » clinical sex therapy».
Any practice in clinical sex therapy will have to be « Sexocorporel » supervised (ISI
certified supervisor).
..
3rd
level: Studies of ISI« Sexocorporel » clinician sex therapist
General
objectives :
- Master the theoretical foundations of
the « Sexocorporel ».
- Master as a clinician sex therapist the
communication and the learning of the « Sexocorporel »
abilities to patients.
Specific objectives :
·
Knowledge:
- Master the links and interactions
between the different components of the model of sexual health.
·
Physiological abilities:
- Master the communication to
patients of the « Sexocorporel » abilities
including : types of breathing, centration, posture, muscular tensions,
rhythms, amplitude of the movements, dissociation of the body movements,
reflex double-tilting, etc.
·
Sexodynamic abilities :
- Have integrated the key elements and the limits to be found
within each of the sexodynamic components interacting in the human
sexual tension
- Have integrated each of the sexodynamic components : sexual pleasure, sexual desire, codes
of sexual attraction, sexual assertivity, sexual agressivity, sense of
belonging to one’s biological sex, sexual intrusivity and receptivity.
- Have integrated the links between the quality of the function of sexual excitement and the
quality of the personal and relational erotic life.
·
Cognitive abilities :
- Integration of the scientific knowledge in the work of the clinician sex
therapist (sexual development, sexual functioning, etc.).
·
Sexoclinical intervention :
- Master the evaluation of the « Sexocorporel » and relational
aspects.
- Master the analysis of the body
structuring of the sexual tension
and bring out the intrapsychic significations of the body dynamics
- Master the objectives, contents,
activities and the sequential organization of the treatments.
- Master the sex therapeutic techniques peculiar to the different « Sexocorporel »
treatments, based on the function of sexual excitement up to the
feeling of belonging to one’s biological sex.
Theoretical content of the
sessions:
It corresponds to the content mentioned in the general
presentation of the approach (before-mentioned to 2 before-mentioned)..
The students
directly coach (co-facilitate) the beginners during workshops in the
first two sessions.During the clinical sessions they take part to the clinical
teaching in role plays, either as fake patients or as therapists.
They teach « Sexocorporel »
abilities to patients in sub-groups with a teacher.
Certification as a ISI clinician
sex therapist :
Supervisions
The ability to
communicate the cognitive elements or the elements directly linked to concrete
learnings, along with the interpersonal skills (empathy) and the ability to
objectify will have been proved by the
student.
At the end of each
session, short written self-observation regarding his/her ability to observe
objectively and to communicate.
Written summary to be
discussed and examined within a sub-group by the teachers to validate the
training.
It is required to
have attended the cycle of the « Vivre en Amour » conferences,
provided that this training should be available in the area.
It is required to
have taken 4 days of medical sexology, 4 days of psychopathology and/or 4 days
of techniques of helping relationship (this may have occurred in the course of
the initial profession).
Certificate
Certificate of graduation in Sexocorporel clinician
sexology
Diploma of ISI clinician sexologist
