One century ago, in 1908, Iwan Bloch first proposed the new term of Sexualwissenschaft, Sexology.

In our scientific community, especially by means of journals, congresses and societies, we daily face old and new challenges.

In particular, divergent points of view developed, thanks to our increasing knowledge, towards a comprehensive approach.

The traditional splitting of body and mind was - and in some way still is - deeply evident in the biology-based reductionism of medical doctors as well as the same limit is present in psychologists where the bodies virtually tend to disappear as material phenomenon.

A special effort has been made, in these last decades, starting with the work of outstanding sexologists such as Masters and Johnson and Kaplan, who first attempted to integrate different tools and strategies in the treatment.

In the seventies this eclectic approach tried, with many difficulties, to integrate not only body and mind and different specialist languages but also psychodynamic, cognitive and systemic tools in treatment programmes.

To find out an empirical model which should make therapeutic sense for the client seeking help as well as to the clinical sexologist is still an important challenge which has to deal with training programmes in clinical sexology.