This workshop explores the complex role of shame in erotic life and in the therapeutic process. Drawing from Psychoanalytic Sex Therapy: Exploring the Unconscious Life of Sexuality, 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 are invited to consider sexuality as a form of unconscious communication and to think about how the analytic relationship can support repair, embodiment, and recognition.

Who This Event Is For
This event is appropriate for clinicians interested in psychoanalysis, sexuality, trauma, and relational treatment, and it is also open to the general public.

About the Presenter
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.

Registration
Registration is through the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies. General admission is $50, and students may attend free. Linked below.