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Prof. Dr. Kasimierz Imielinski
ul. Fieldorfa 40
Warszawa PL- 04158
Phone: (+48-22) 6 10 56 93 or 6 10 20 56
Fax: (+48-22) 6 10 31 59
Sex Research Department
Ul. Londynska 12 m 31
PL-03921 Warszawa
Director: Anna Sierzpowska-Ketner, M.D., Ph.D.
ul. Marymoncka 34
01-813 Warsaw, Poland
Phone: (+48-22) 6 17 64 16
Fax: (+48-22) 23 94 45
Prof. Dr. Kasimierz Imielinski
Institute of Sexology and the Pathology of Interpersonel Relations
ul. Fieldorfa 40
Warszawa PL- 04158
Phone: (+48-22) 6 10 56 93 or 6 10 20 56
Fax: (+48-22) 6 10 31 59
E-Mail:
Name of program:
Medical Sexology as a Speciality for Physicians
(Excerpts from an official description)
1. Admission and Attendance Requirements
Successful completion of a three-year specialty training as a psychiatrist, gynecologist, internist, or pediatrist. In addition: Three years of medical practice in sexology, participation in all seminars, consultations and scientific meetings held by the Director of Training, practical experience in various clinics (three to six months, as deemed necessary by the Director of Training), participation in all sexological courses offered during the training period, participation in two colloquia (clinical and social sexology), active participation in the work of the section for sexology, family problems and interpersonal relations, presentation of two reports in scientific meetings, working knowledge of two foreign languages.
The training in Sexual Medicine ends with an examination before a governmental commission.
2. Elements of Clinical Sexology
2.1 Sexual Psychophysiology
Definition of human sexuality, modele of sexuality, the physiological basis of sexuality, evolutionary mechanisms, the nervous system, the hormonal system, sexual biorhythms, sexual attitudes, responses, and behavior.
Psychophysiology of sexual excitement and orgasm, male and female psychosexual development, sexual maturation, sexual psychophysiology in children, adolescents, adults, and the aging.
Psychosocial foundations of sexuality - personality factors, learning, socio-cultural factors.
2.2 Sexual Pathology
Limits and clinical aspects of sexual normality and pathology, dynamics and relativity of sexual norme, classification of sexual dysfunctions, individual and interactive dysfunctions, ethiology and incidence of sexual dysfunctions.
Sexual deviations, classification and symptomatology of sexual deviations and perversions, symptomatic sexual disturbances related to psychiatric endocrinological, gynecological, andrological, and neurological diseases.
Sexual disturbanees in childhood, differential diagnosis of functional and organic disturbances, application of methods of dinical psyehology, psychodiagnosties, elinical observation, psyehometrie teste, projection teste, elinical experiments.
2.3 Treatment of Sexual Problems
Individual psychotherapy: Rational, suggestive and psychoanalytic methods, group psychotherapy, integrated psychotherapy, pharmacological and surgical treatment, sociotherapy and gender reassignment, balneoclimatic treatment, ethical, legal and social aspects of sexological treatment.
2.4 Expert Testimony in Civil and Criminal Court Cases
Diagnosis of sexual dysfunctions in a forensic context, expert testimony on sexual dysfunctions and deviations (and perversions).
3. Social Sexology
3.1 Psychological Problems in Sexology
Human sexual needs and systems of need, the development and structure of sexual motivation, the role of emotions in sexual motivation, evolution and regression of emotions, influenees on emotional maturation.
Mechanisms of adaptation in relationships, emotional eonflicts and their resolution, development and regression in the sexual sphere, factors in chartging the sexual response, basic factors in human eommunication, personality disorders in eonnection with sexual conflicts and decline of marital harmony.
3.2 Sociological Problems in Sexology
Choice of partner, social determinants in premarital relationships, the sexual factor and other factors in choosing a partner, stereotypical male and female sexual behavior, the sexual element in marriage.
The separation of the proereative from the recreative funetion of sex and its social consequences, marital infidelity, jealousy, aleoholism ete. as the causes of eonfliet and marital diseord, goals and tasks of gamology: a harmonious marriage in spite of eonfliets, personal maturity for the marital partners and the family.
3.3 Pedagogical Problems in Sexology
Sexual problems and the education of children and adolescents with in the family, sexual information for children in different social environments, adoleseent sexual morality, preparation of ehildren for sexual partnership and marriage, physical and psychological maturation in children and adoleseents.
Socialization of interpersonal relationships, development of moral ideas and their meaning for the emotional, sexual and marital life, harmonious personality development.
Ethical norms before the beginning of sexual relationships, in premarital and marital relationships, the ethics of fatherhood and motherhood, the ethics of divorce, principles of sex education for ehildren and adolescents, dealing with sexual problems in ehildren and adoleseents.
3.4 Legal Problems in Sexology
The concept of sexual eriminality, legal (also criminological), scientific and medical approaches, problems of individual and social sex pathology, the sexual crime as a voluntary act and as a social phenomen, the sociological study of sexual erimes, the moral and ethical evaluation of sex erimes, sex erimes with regard to various penal codes, offenses against sexual freedom and sexual morality.
Other offenses with possible sexual elements, possibilities and limits of law enforcement with regard to sexual behavior.
3.5 Other Selceted Problems
Sexual problems from the perspectives of biology, biochemistry, genetics, cultural anthropology, philosophy and the study of religions.
Tuition and fees:
Details have not been provided.
- Journal of the Polish Sexological Society -
Seksuologia Polska
Pólrocznik
ISSN 1731-6677
Publisher:
"Via Medica sp. z o.o." sp.k.
Editor-in-Chief: Slawomir Jakim (Warsaw)
Editorial Secretary: Alexander Jakim (Warsaw)
Editor: Kamila Reclaw
Editorial office:
Redakcja Seksuologii Polskiej
ul. Husarska 6b
02-489 Warszawa
Phone: 0 601 230 892, (022) 621 15 52
E-mail: s.jakima@wp.pl
Internet: http://www.sp.viamedica.pl/