PSYC 645 - Sexual Function/ Dysfunction

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Montclair State University

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College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: PSYCHOLOGY Credits: 3.00 Sexual Function and Dysfunction. Prerequisites: Departmental approval, and one graduate course in human sexuality or PSYC 667. This course reviews current knowledge about sexual function and dysfunction. Theoretical approaches including psychoanalytic, mechanistic, social script, and data which support or disconfirm them will be studied. The major focus is on the most common dysfunctions including disorders of desire, excitement, orgasm. Other problems such as pedophilia, exhibitionism, fetishes will be covered. Although therapeutic approaches of Kaplan, Masters and Johnson, the cognitive behaviorists and others will be studied, the course does not prepare students to be sex therapists or counselors. 3 hours lecture.

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3.00

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Institution Website:

www.montclair.edu

Phone Number:

(973) 655-4000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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