The Sexual Tipping Point: A Mind/Body Model For The Past, Present & Future
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A/Professor Michael Perelman |
The Sexual Tipping Point (STP) Model® arose from approximately two decades of collaboration with Kaplan, at NY Weill Cornell Medical Center. Kaplan (1995) described a "psychosomatic" dual-control model of sexual motivation emphasizing “inhibition/excitation” processes. Yet, by 2000, worldwide media seemed exclusively focused on the “robust” efficacy of sexual pharmaceuticals. It seemed critical to advance a model that would help professionals and the public alike, understand that sex is always both "mental and physical". STP was intended to easily describe the mind/body concept (underlying all psychophysiological phenomena): "mental" factors can "turn you on" as well as "turn you off"; the same is true of the "physical” factors.
Although explained in earlier presentations, STP gained a larger audience with the JSM (2005) publication of "The Sexual Tipping Point" abstract, that described this etiological model for sexual function and dysfunction. The STP model complemented the early seminal work of Bancroft and later Jansen, Graham, & Sanders who provided erudite articulation of “dual-control” theory, psychometrics, and comprehensive research. However, STP remains a very convenient heuristic device when advocating for sexual counseling to be integrated with current and future “translational” medical advances, in-order to provide a combination treatment having the best benefit/risk for patients with sexual disorders.
References:
Bancroft J, Graham CA, Janssen E, Sanders SA. The dual control model: current status and future directions. J Sex Research. 2009;46(2-3):12-42.
Kaplan, HS, The Evaluation Of Sexual Disorders, Brunner/Mazel,1995, NYC.
Perelman MA. “The Sexual Tipping Point®: A Mind/Body Model For Sexual Medicine.” J Sexual Medicine, 2009;6(3):629-32.
Recorded June 12 – 16, 2011 at the 20th WAS World Congress for Sexual Health
Forging the Future: Sexual Health for the 21th Century, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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A/Professor Michael Perelman
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Dr. Michael A. Perelman is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Reproductive Medicine, and Urology at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He is the Co-Director of the Human Sexuality Program, Payne Whitney Clinic of the New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, founded over thirty years ago by his late mentor Dr. Helen S. Kaplan. Dr. Perelman has served on several professional society boards of directors and is currently the President-Elect of The Society for Sex Therapy and Research (SSTAR). He was elected a fellow of the Sexual Medicine Society of North America (SMSNA) and is a member of over twenty-five other professional associations including the International Academy of Sex Researchers (IASR), the International Society for Sexual Medicine (ISSM), and the International Society for Study of Women’s Sexual Health (ISSWSH). Dr. Perelman was appointed to the Sexual Function Advisory Council of the American Urological Association Foundation. Dr. Perelman is a consulting editor and/or reviewer for many journals, including: British Journal of Urology International, Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, Journal of Urology, Urology, International J. of Impotence Research and Current Sexual Health Reports; appointed to the Board of Directors and Inter-Journal Committee Chair for the Journal of Sexual Medicine, and to the Communications Committee of the ISSM.
Website: http://www.cornellphysicians.com/mperelman
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