ThirdAge Insider: Dr. David Schnarch: Biography

Dr. David Schnarch brings a learned and compassionate voice to the ThirdAge community's discussion of love, passion, and sex and intimacy in marriage and other emotionally-committed relationships. A clinical psychologist with 20 years' experience providing therapy to couples, Dr. Schnarch is one of the nation's leading sex therapists and the author of two books, "Passionate Marriage," for lay persons and "The Sexual Crucible," a landmark work for practitioners. He holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Michigan State University and, as professor of urology at Louisiana State University Medical Center from 1981 to 1995, Dr. Schnarch trained medical doctors in the communication skills appropriate to screening patients with sexual dysfunction.

His landmark contributions to the field of sex therapy and couples counseling are drawn directly from the busy practice which he and his wife, Dr. Ruth Morehouse, also a clinical psychologist, pursue at their clinic, the Marriage and Family Health Center in Evergreen, Colorado. In workshops across the country, Dr. Morehouse and Dr. Schnarch counsel couples who wish to take advantage of what Dr. Schnarch calls "the people-growing machinery of marriage." This unique approach to couples counseling, which includes innovative practices like "eyes-open sex," has been recognized as a milestone at the leading edge of marriage and family therapy. Best of all, Dr. Schnarch recognizes that men and women become better lovers as they mature. Here's an interview that explains Dr. Schnarch's point of view on sex in maturity.

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