Treatment of Desire Discrepancy: One Clinician's Approach.

For couples, the most common sexual problems that arise in therapy are low desire and desire discrepancy. The complex and challenging nature of desire discrepancy is addressed, along with core therapeutic interventions to confront the traditional power struggle over defining sex as intercourse only. The importance of desire is recognized in understanding that sexual satisfaction means feeling good about oneself as a sexual person and energized as a sexual couple.