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Course, academic year 2025/2026
   
Sexual Psychology 1 - APS100098
Title: Sexuální psychologie 1
Form of teaching: lecture
Guaranteed by: Department of Psychology (21-KPS)
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Actual: from 2025
Duration in semesters: 1
Semester: winter
Points: 0
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: winter s.:combined
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Maximum number of enrolled students: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Repeated enrollment: 1 / 1 / 1 / 1
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: Mgr. Zuzana Štěrbová, Ph.D.
prof. PhDr. Petr Weiss, Ph.D., DSc.
Is pre-requisite for: APS100099
Annotation -
This course provides an overview of the basic characteristics of sexual development and the basic disorders of sexual motivation, sexual identification, and sexual function.
The aim of the course is to acquire basic knowledge for the diagnosis and therapy of sexual problems.
Acquired knowledge: the student understands the basic determinants of human sexuality, both from the point of view of evolutionary psychology and from the point of view of possible sexopathology; can list the basic paraphilias in object and activity, basic sexual dysfunctions of men and women and the procedure of gender transition in transsexuals; can describe the Czech model of treatment of paraphilics, psychotherapeutic procedures and list basic pharmacotherapy.
Acquired skills: the student is able to differentiate disorders of sexual preference, identity and function, knows the basics of their diagnosis and has an overview of possible therapy of paraphilias, transsexuality and male and female sexual dysfunctions; is able to place human sexuality in the broader framework of the human motivational system, knows its basic biological and psychological determinants.
Course content: psychosexual development. Biological determination of sexual development. Determinants of psychosexual development. Sexual identification. Sexual roles. Sexual preferences. Sexual behaviour. Sexual deviance (paraphilia). Deviance in activity: Voyeurism, Exhibitionism, Erotografomania, Scatophilia (erotophonics, obscene phone calls), Frotteurism, Showering, Pathological sexual aggression, Sadism and masochism. Pedophilia, Fetishism, Transvestitism. Diagnosis and treatment of sexual deviants. Czech model of treatment of paraphiliacs.

Last update: Dragomirecká Eva, PhDr., Ph.D. (06.11.2023)
Course completion requirements -

Study the required literature, study and present at the attestation a copy of three foreign-language sexology articles published in the last ten years and be able to discuss them, or present a certificate of participation in sexology research instead.

Last update: Dragomirecká Eva, PhDr., Ph.D. (13.10.2023)
Literature -

Bancroft, John. (2008). Human Sexuality and its Problems: Third Edition.

Tolman D. L. and Diamond L. M. (2013). (Eds.). APA handbook of sexuality and psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. 1288 pp. $395.00 (hardcover). ISBN 9781433813696.

Last update: Nikolai Tomáš, doc. Mgr. et Mgr., Ph.D. (13.12.2023)
 
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