Are you interested in psychology? Also check out our blog: www.psyche.swps.pl You can also listen to the content we share on this channel as podcasts on: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5cGf88v... iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/s... SoundCloud: / swpspl Lecton: https://lectonapp.com/podcast/e2bfa63... The issues of desire, human attractiveness and human sexuality were discussed during the October Psyche Zone, which aroused great interest at the Warsaw SWPS. The discussion entitled "Between desire and anti-desire - contemporary sexuality of women and men" was led by experts cooperating with SWPS. During the discussion on contemporary sexuality of women and men, the participants confronted current trends in the issue of mutual attraction and repulsion, thanks to which people either enter into relationships or intuitively give them a wide berth. Our experts, who work with couples on a daily basis, spoke about the decline of desire in long-term relationships and talked about ways to revive passion in them. They also talked about the role of dating sites as a tool for finding partners, about what is attractive to us and that contrary to popular belief – it has little in common with the so-called canon of today's beauty. The lively debate was led by Michał Pozdał, Robert Kowalczyk, Katarzyna Waszyńska and Agata Loewe. Agata Loewe – a graduate of SWPS in Warsaw (Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology of Intercultural Relations) and the Institute for Advanced Studies of Human Sexuality in San Francisco, where she obtained the title of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD). In 2014, she also completed a 4-year postgraduate course in Systemic Family Therapy at the Systemic Training Center in Krakow. For 6 years she has been active in non-governmental organizations dealing with equal opportunities for people at risk of social exclusion and promotion of mental, reproductive and sexual health (KPH, Ponton, IGLYO, Trans-fuzja, YouAct). She specializes in research on gender, sexual orientation, sexual preferences and gender identities and alternative lifestyles. She works to promote the Sexuality Positive Movement, safer, responsible and consensual behaviors and conscious relationships. She conducts workshops and trainings. On a daily basis she deals with psychological and sexological counseling and sex coaching. Katarzyna Waszyńska - psychologist, clinical sexologist, specialist in post-traumatic stress therapy, counselor in marital and family problems, second degree specialist in sex education. Assistant professor at the Department of Health Promotion and Psychotherapy at the Faculty of Educational Studies of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, head of Postgraduate Studies in Sexology at the WSE UAM. His scientific interests focus on issues related to psychology, sexology, therapy. They also include the promotion of sexual health and sexual education understood as an integral element of health education. He periodically collaborates with television centers in Krakow and Warsaw, as part of publicistic and educational programs. He has been conducting clinical therapeutic activities in Poznań since 1997. Robert Kowalczyk – Ph.D., MA in psychology. Psychologist, clinical sexologist (specialization 2007), court expert. Graduate of Applied Psychology at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (2003), Postgraduate Studies in the field of forensic-psychological opinions: University of Silesia in Katowice (2007), Doctoral Studies at the Faculty of Medicine of the Silesian Medical University in Zabrze (2007). Head of the Department of Sexology at the Faculty of Psychology and Humanities of the Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow Academy. Collaborates (lecturer) with the Medical University of Warsaw and the Maria Grzegorzewska Academy of Special Education in Warsaw. Author and co-author of over 60 medical and psychological publications of national and international scope. Participates in the implementation of many scientific and research projects in the field of sexology, psychology and psychiatry. Member of the Polish Sexological Society and the Scientific Council (MSM) of the National AIDS Centre. Michał Pozdał – sex educator, psychotherapist, lecturer at SWPS. He graduated from the Faculty of Applied Social Sciences and Resocialization at the University of Warsaw, was a scholarship holder at the Faculty of Applied Drama at the University of Exeter; completed training in Sexual Counseling and Education at the University of Manchester, a series of trainings in the field of human sexuality at the Medical Centre for Postgraduate Education, training in the field of Sex Therapy for Couples under the supervision of Esther Perel (USA). He runs a private practice in Katowice, Warsaw and Wrocław. #desire #sex #sexuality #love #relationships #psychology