title: Psychological diagnosis in sexology.
abstract: The author presents a model based on verbal and non-verbal instruments in order to elaborate a psychological diagnosis in troubles of sexual behavior. The instruments usually employed are the following: the map aimed at verifying harmony or conflict with significant people; family drawing, another means to check harmony or conflict in the nuclear family; genogram, in order to reconstruct family myths; body drawing aimed at discovering the body parts that give pleasure, uneasiness, annoyance-tickle and the problems connected with genitals; questionnaire on the couple aimed at finding out areas of mutual dissatisfaction; the drawing of the shared space in the couple, represented by the WE area, in order to identify the relational/emotional deficiencies. Using this model we can simplify the anamnesis, focus on the problematic areas, quickly check the unconscious contents and define a diagnosis with the subsequent hypothesis of intervention.
authors.affiliation: International Institute of Sexology, Firenze, Italy. irf@fi.flashnet.it
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Giommi
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D044347:Sexology / Q000379:methods*; D020018:Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological / Q000175:diagnosis*