Therapeutic interventions

I'm new to the board but an experienced psycho-sexual counsellor specialising in fetish therapy and age regression. As a female counsellor I work with male patients who have concerns and issues with their sexuality. Much of my work involves extensive one to one roleplay designed to explore fetishes, helping the patient to understand his feelings and feel more at ease with them.

I was wondering whether your members would be interested to read some (suitably anonymised) case histories if I were to post them on the board?

Regards, Dr. Pamela Martineau

Absolutely!

They would be very interesting.

Within the bounds of patient confidentiality I certainly believe that these stores would be of great interest to many of us.

Of course I can't speak for everyone, but I think many members would find such stories interesting.

It's almost three weeks. Where are the case histories?

Doubt is creeping in.

This had an odd ring from the git-go.

I imagine 3 weeks will stretch into 3 yrs.

Have to agree with you guys....was suspect immediately after responding.

Let's see....

1 female counselor for males?

2 fetish counseling? Men are pretty happy with everything they do, fetishes, driving too fast, collecting beer cans. We just don't seek counseling unless forced to and then we don't listen

3 recounting the stories for no reason but creating risk that a patient will see his case on line?

4 Role playing as counseling? Yah sure. A good way to heighten a fetish not tame one

5 And, finally this is first post of a supposed new member. Right off the bat without watching and evaluating.

Personally I expect to see a pink moose before I see a post

Let's see....

1 female counselor for males?

2 fetish counseling? Men are pretty happy with everything they do, fetishes, driving too fast, collecting beer cans. We just don't seek counseling unless forced to and then we don't listen

3 recounting the stories for no reason but creating risk that a patient will see his case on line?

4 Role playing as counseling? Yah sure. A good way to heighten a fetish not tame one

5 And, finally this is first post of a supposed new member. Right off the bat without watching and evaluating.

Personally I expect to see a pink moose before I see a post

Not defending THIS person, but...

There are sex therapists of both genders.

Some sex therapists do use real sex to facilitate therapy

There is a profession called 'Sacred Intimate.'

The concept of talking about real clients on a public forum is completely unethical

This is likely a Domme with a good imagination, or not even that since we haven't heard anything in three weeks since her post and she has been here since then.

Seems like all our shits out there please share with the class psycho part sounds right

Yes yes there are sex counselors of both genders and yes role playing is used by some but this series of low probabilities adds up to an implausible whole.

It's like expecting lightening to strike repeatedly in the same spot. Not gonna happen unless you live in a church steeple.

Back in the mid 90´s i think, an M.D. named Joanne Denko from Ohio published a paper on klismaphilia based on insights derived from case histories. Klismaphilia is a somewhat old-fashioned word nowadays, but her intentions were quite charitable and scientific. The case histories she described were naturally anonymous, there being no way anyone´s identity could be garnered from them. The case history was also put on the old Speculumpages site and far from being displeased, she was contacted by one of the site´s administrators and there followed a short correspondence. The main thing was however that her interest was academic - for her giving enemas and all the surrounding procedures and likes etc was purely a neglected field of study. Personally they were not an interest to her at all.

So what I´m saying is to keep an open mind. Even academics browse the naughtier parts of the web and can become interested in things as are posted here. And anonymous accounts of medical, psychoanalytical and what not histories are nothing out of the ordinary nor unethical - provided they are indeed anonymous.

Pmartineau, I see you signed in an hour ago.

Don't you have something to add here?

If you genuinely have something to post here, we would certainly appreciate it.

Not posting anything adds to our doubt.

"I was wondering whether your members would be interested to read some (suitably anonymised) case histories if I were..."

It would be absolutely inappropriate for you to share ANYTHING that came to you through a professional relationship with a client or patient.

I doubt that you are real; however, if you are, shame on you. I cannot believe that you would share information and stories given to you in 'trust', other people's private property, with the general public. And, we are the general public.

That's my 2¢ ~

Hermann

All the rest aside, medical and psychological case studies are published all the time based on information gleaned from experience with patients.

BUT ... these are always suitably made anonymous so that a patient´s identity cannot be traced or inferred via the case study. This should of course be undertaken rigorously.

I think the thing that throws some members here is that the case studies would be of a sexual, and moreover, of a more unusual sexual nature.

And after all the discussions here and comments, I doubt anyone would even wish to post anything anymore anyway. Where´s the benefit of the doubt, the charitable thinking? There can be any number of valid reasons for a delay - maybe making the case histories suitably anonymous takes longer than one would guess?

All the rest aside, medical and psychological case studies are published all the time based on information gleaned from experience with patients.BUT ... these are always suitably made anonymous so that a patient´s identity cannot be traced or inferred via the case study. This should of course be undertaken rigorously. I think the thing that throws some members here is that the case studies would be of a sexual, and moreover, of a more unusual sexual nature. And after all the discussions here and comments, I doubt anyone would even wish to post anything anymore anyway. Where´s the benefit of the doubt, the charitable thinking? There can be any number of valid reasons for a delay - maybe making the case histories suitably anonymous takes longer than one would guess?

The other BIG issue is that inclusion in academic publications are WITH informed consent.

The photograph on this person's avatar looks like Esther Rantzen (sorry folks UK TV presenter for those of you who don't know her).

I agree with Hermann and think that real life stories of this nature would be inappropriate. Be interesting to see if this post develops.

Elizabeth2010 :

The photograph on this person's avatar looks like Esther Rantzen (sorry folks UK TV presenter for those of you who don't know her).

I agree with Hermann and think that real life stories of this nature would be inappropriate. Be interesting to see if this post develops.

mmmm ! maybe more to this than one may initially recognize.....

Dubious fishing expedition !..

As a profession social work with clinical certification I say my only question is that the good doc has openly given her name. if that is really her, therefore one of the basic tenances of amonimity has been broken in that her patients might find and recognize them selves. footnotes and refs please

Well since she's hasn't logged in for 11 months I guess it's all a moot point now. I thought it was a terribly inappropriate thing to suggest in the first place though.

It's also possible, given the rather unfriendly reception, that the OP decided it was not worth the effort of her offer.

That's because she could tell that people here believed she was a fake.

I agree that she was a fake. If those accounts had been so fascinating why not write a book instead and make money? Of course the same thing could be said about my stories. I know I should have written a book years ago. Unlike other books on the subject mine would have been filled with gallows humor.

I agree that she was a fake. If those accounts had been so fascinating why not write a book instead and make money?

The free erotic and fetish stories that can be found on the Internet are far better than anything a publisher would ever dare publish. Or have the taste and knowledge to recognize for that matter. If you've ever read the stories that were published in magazines like Water & Power or even in some amateur publications, you'd almost immediately recognize that they were not written by people who truly understand what all these fetishes truly encompass.

Anthologies of erotic art and illustration work rather well. Most imagery in such art/coffee table books was created for personal gratification or for underground sales. And was therefore not really constrained by conventions or pornography laws. Think for instance of those wonderful 'German Enema Artist' illustrations.

True accounts that are written up, need even more literary skill to be interesting. They really wouldn't sell all that well. These kind of accounts are for professional journals. And while writers may get a little bit of monetary compensation, it's mainly done for professional standing and recognition.

Making money writing books, any kind for that matter, is not easy.

I agree completely that it's very hard to make money writing anything. I'm not sure I agree about fantasy being better than the truth. I've always found that the weirdness of true stories makes it the best. Of course there are those who can't distinguish the two.

. . . I know I should have written a book years ago. Unlike other books on the subject mine would have been filled with gallows humor.

I was at a physician's funeral recently. He had three daughters from slightly older to slightly younger than me. One of them was telling about stories their father used to tell at the dinner table. She said his stories about work ranged from positively hilarious to downright disgusting!

I truly don't ever want to disgust people unless it's also funny. You know Susie that the only way to stand the stress of our jobs is to laugh at things.

I'm not sure I agree about fantasy being better than the truth. I've always found that the weirdness of true stories makes it the best. Of course there are those who can't distinguish the two.

I have never found anything better suited to my tastes and needs, than some of the stories that were submitted to Speculumpages. Truly, some of the amateur writers who sent their stuff in were geniuses at erotic writing. And some of them very good at punctuation and grammar as well. Up to professional standards. But virtually all of it completely unsuited to publishing on paper by reason of morals and norms.

Well my objection to fantasy is that it never and I mean never measures up to the weirdness of reality. I do admit that I'm jaded by what I do for a living.