T08-O-08 Sexual re-pleasuring: male substance users and abusers working sexual pleasure as relapse prevention while living in a therapeutic community - 27/06/08
Résumé |
Some drug users or abusers use illicit drugs a way to reach sexual enhancement. Rehabilitation is a lifelong process to prevent relapse. This work stresses on how a small male substance use and abuse group living in a therapeutic community is empowered through sex education, counseling and therapy to experience new ways of sexual enhancement so they may be able to be drug free on sexual encounters once they resume their life out of the therapeutic community, and, consequently, be able to see sex as a relapse prevention strategy. The process is divided into four phases: a) Playful Integration Phase devoted to build trust and group integration. It works Mourier/Herriotʼs sexual archetypes and PLISSITʼs Permission modality to work and explore new sexual patterns; b) Socialization and Sexuality Phase to work their cultureʼs view of male sexuality, and Ira Reis’concept of social scripts; c) Physiological/Psychological Phase to work the physiology of sex either on drugs or not, Masters and Johnsonʼs ejaculatory control, the psychology of sex, and Zilbergeldʼs conditions for good sex theory to get participants to know which conditions fit their sexual needs the best; d) Enrichment/Sensory Phase which works The Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexualityʼs (IASHS) Sexual Enrichment and Education program and the Sensorium sexological programs to experience new, drug-free levels of sexual sensations. It also applies Carol Wellʼs guided imagery and sexual creativity exercises along with PLISSITʼs Permission. In a Rogerian sense the program aims to give participants an unconditional acceptance space.
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