Specialist for Psychiatry and Psychotherapeutic Medicine, Innsbruck
This curriculum, the first of its kind in Austria, provides the course members on one hand with an exchange between the essential interdisciplinary knowledge and experiences of the taboo “sexuality”, and, on the other hand, the ability to overcome the dichotomy between somatic and mental state dysfunctions. For me as a psychiatrist and psychotherapist, it is of great concern to me to be released from basic treatment of symptoms and to approach the patient as a complex, multi-faceted bio-psycho-social being, as only then is it possible to create a syndiastic relationship, so imperative particularly in the field of sexuality. The balanced degree of theoretical expert knowledge and competent counseling enable the course members not only to discuss “sex”, but also the ability to offer holistic and solution-oriented sexual medical treatment.