title: You known who and what's her name: the woman's role in sex therapy.
abstract: As sex therapy becomes an established mode of treatment, the original Masters and Johnson model of cotherapy is its most common form. The complex issues in the relationship between cotherapists who are doing sex therapy have not received adequate attention. Differences in status, experience, and training combine with aspects of the personal relationship between therapists to make cotherapy a substantial problem. Whether the cotherapists are married, otherwise involved in a personal relationship, or even when they are a physician and his nurse or two independent therapists, the sexual content of their work inevitably raises issues that need to be resolved. These issues include erotic fantsies and power struggles between the therapists that can affect the outcome of treatment.
mesh_terms: D003376:Counseling; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D008722:Methods; D009726:Nurses; D011613:Psychotherapy; D011616:Psychotherapy, Multiple; D012735:Sexual Dysfunction, Physiological / Q000628:therapy*; D014930:Women