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Kinsey, Masters & Johnson, et Kaplan en Suisse : naissance d’une clinique des troubles sexuels (Lausanne, 1950-1980)
- Source :
- Histoire, Médecine et Santé, Vol 12, Pp 99-129 (2018)
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Presses universitaires du Midi, 2018.
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Abstract
- This article highlights the institutional, professional and clinical dynamics surrounding the implementation, in the mid-1970s, of an American-style sex therapy in the capital of the canton of Vaud, in French-speaking Switzerland. We suggest that we analyze these dynamics from the perspective of a critical history of Americanism as an “engine of discovery” of modern sexology. We situate the birth of a clinic for sexual disorders within the wider history of sexology and psychotherapy in order to discuss the invention of an American sexology made in Switzerland. We also demonstrate what the so-called new American methods in Lausanne, and more generally out of America, owed to this Americanism: the stamp of scientificity and modernity, but also their very Americanness.
- Subjects :
- sexology
therapy
Americanism
Switzerland
Social Sciences
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English, French
- ISSN :
- 22638911 and 25572113
- Volume :
- 12
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Histoire, Médecine et Santé
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.403d2cdc9e284b51b9a0e33f188224bf
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.4000/hms.1183