title: Directiveness in psychotherapy and the "sexual revolution".
abstract: The "sexual revolution" has produced both tangible gains and new contexts in which susceptible people can get into trouble. Increasing separation of "sexuality" from reproduction is a gain. Psychotherapy itself can profit, both by the need to deal with new problems and by the opportunity which new social behaviors afford for rethinking theory on a basis of observation. We are no longer likely to be overzealous in categorizing sexual deviance. The potential separation of sex from parenthood makes possible a better-aimed directive psychotherapy. The fact that we no longer moralize irrationally about sexual preferences makes us free to moralize rationally about parenting and about responsible behavior--the area which an antidote to "anything goes" is most evidentially defensible on psychiatric grounds.
mesh_terms: D006716:Homosexuality; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D009014:Morals; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D012922:Social Change; D012941:Social Responsibility; D012945:Social Values