Sexual Desire Disorder: A Case Study from a Dynamic Perspective

Clinical psychologist, treats couples and individuals in private practice in Richmond, Virginia. She is an associate clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Medical College of Virginia, and is on the faculty at the International Psychotherapy Institute, a British Object Relations training programme, where she trained. She has lectured nationally and internationally on couple relationships and the evaluation and treatment of sexual difficulties. Her publications on this topic have appeared in Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, and New Paradigms for Treating Relationships. Dr Caruso is certified as a sex therapist by the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists. Her interest in attachment began in graduate school where she studied with Dr Beatrice Beebe who advised her on her dissertation: Early Mother-Infant Interaction as a Predictor of Attachment at One Year.