Sexuality and Shame: Understanding the Erotic Mind in Clinical Practice
Live Webinar: Saturday, 7th Nov 2026
About This Webinar
Shame is one of the most common yet least understood forces shaping a person's erotic life. It can contribute to difficulties with desire, arousal, orgasm, sexual compulsivity, avoidance of intimacy, relationship conflict, and a wide range of sexual symptoms. While shame is often experienced consciously, its influence frequently operates outside of awareness, becoming embedded in the body, relational patterns, and erotic experience.
This webinar explores the relationship between shame, sexuality, and psychological development from a psychoanalytic and sex therapy perspective. Participants will examine how shame may become organized through sexual behavior, fantasy, identity, and the body itself. Particular attention will be given to the concept of narcissistic attachment to the body and how sexual symptoms may function as attempts to regulate self-esteem, vulnerability, and emotional conflict.
Through clinical examples and case material, participants will develop a deeper understanding of the unconscious meanings of sexual symptoms and explore therapeutic interventions that support greater embodiment, self-awareness, and relational capacity.
GLOBAL EXPERT SERIES
Explore the Hidden Role of Shame in Sexuality
Discover how unconscious shame shapes desire, intimacy, relationships, and sexual symptoms.
Webinar Details
Format: Live Webinar on Zoom (Includes access to recording for 90 days)
Date & Time
- Saturday, 7th Nov, 26 - 09. 00 AM to 11:00 A.M [Sydney Time - GMT +10]
Special Price: A$89
CPD Certificate: 2 Hours. CPD certificates are issued to attendees who meet one of the following criteria: attend the live webinar with at least 80% attendance, or watch the webinar recording and complete the associated assessment component.
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About Juliane Maxwald
Juliane Maxwald is a Licensed Psychoanalyst, AASECT-Certified Sex Therapist, author, educator, and supervisor based in New York City. She specializes in relationship difficulties, sexual concerns, trauma, compulsive behaviors, and issues related to desire, intimacy, and shame.
Juliane serves on the faculty of the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy's Sex Therapy Program and Trauma Studies Program. She teaches, supervises, and presents nationally and internationally on psychoanalysis, sexuality, trauma, desire, and the unconscious aspects of human relationships.
She is the author of Psychoanalytic Sex Therapy: Exploring the Unconscious Life of Sexuality and frequently presents on sexuality, desire, shame, trauma, and the intersection of psychoanalysis and sex therapy.