Shame and the Erotic Mind: A Psychoanalytic Lens on Sexuality, Desire, and the Therapeutic Relationship (Online Presentation)

2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts,Psychologists, and Social Workers

This workshop explores the complex role of shame in erotic life and the therapeutic process.  Drawing from her book, Psychoanalytic Sex Therapy: Exploring the Unconscious Life of Sexuality (Routledge, 2026), Juliane Maxwald integrates psychoanalytic, relational, and somatic frameworks to illuminate how sexual symptoms often conceal unspoken shame, attachment longing, and the fear of exposure.  Through clinical vignettes, theory, and discussion, participants will learn to listen to sexuality as a form of unconscious communication—and to use the analytic relationship to achieve repair, embodiment, and recognition.

Juliane Maxwald, MA, LP, CST, is a psychoanalyst and certified sex therapist in New York specializing in sexuality, trauma, and relational dynamics.  She teaches and supervises nationally in psychoanalytic and sex-therapy settings and is the author of Psychoanalytic Sex Therapy: Exploring the Unconscious Life of Sexuality (Routledge, 2026).

Practitioners and General Public: $50
Students: Free

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