An intimate conversation with Juliane Maxwald about desire, shame, attachment, and the unconscious dimensions of sexual life.
Join us to celebrate the publication of Juliane Maxwald’s Psychoanalytic Sex Therapy: Exploring the Unconscious Life of Sexuality.
Framed as an intimate dialogue with the author, this one-hour book talk will explore how sexual symptoms—low desire, intimacy struggles, compulsive behavior, or disruptions in arousal—often reflect deeper layers of attachment, trauma, and unconscious conflict. Juliane will discuss how psychoanalysis and modern sex therapy can be integrated in practice, how shame silently shapes erotic life, and how clinicians can work at the intersection of mind, body, and relational experience.
Drawing from powerful clinical narratives and contemporary theory, Juliane will invite participants into a nuanced conversation about the emotional meanings behind sexual challenges.
As Ian Kerner writes, “Juliane Maxwald…puts sex therapy back on the couch and shows us that everything old is new again.”
Location, Date, & Time: Virtual via Zoom, Thursday January 15th 2026 from 1:00-2:00PM EST
About the book: Psychoanalytic Sex Therapy: Exploring the Unconscious Life of Sexuality bridges depth psychology and modern sex therapy to illuminate the hidden emotional meanings embedded in sexual struggles. Through case material, contemporary psychoanalytic theory, and integrative clinical frameworks, the book invites therapists to listen to sexuality not only as behavior, but as a language of the unconscious. Topics include desire discrepancy, porn use, trauma, narcissism, compulsive sexuality, consensual non-monogamy, and the relational dynamics that shape erotic life. It is written for clinicians who want to bring more depth, nuance, and confidence to working with sexuality in treatment.
About the author: Juliane Maxwald, MA, LP, CST, is a psychoanalyst, certified sex therapist, and couples therapist in New York specializing in sexuality, trauma, and relational dynamics. She teaches, supervises, and consults nationally across psychoanalytic, trauma and sex therapy communities.
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