Meana

Faculty

Marta Meana, Ph.D.

Professor

Program:

Clinical

Email:

marta.meana@unlv.edu

Phone:

(702) 895-0184

Accepting Graduate Students 2012-2013: NO

Research Interests

Marta Meana is interested in sexuality. She is particularly interested in women's sexual function, how it works, how it breaks down, and how it compares to male sexuality. Her work focuses on conceptualizations and mechanisms of sexual desire and on the sexual pain disorders. Also of interest is the study of factors that influence the cognitive processing of sexual information in both men and women. Her approach is informed by both essentialist and social construction perspectives and she subscribes to a biopsychosocial and systems approach to the study and theorizing of sexuality and to the treatment of sexual difficulties.

Dr. Meana obtained her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from McGill University in Montreal in 1996 and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Women's Health at the University of Toronto. She is President of the Society for Sex Therapy and Research, Associate Editor of the Archives of Sexual Behavior, serves of the Editorial Boards of Journal of Sex Research and Journal of Sexual Medicine, and she is an advisor to the DSM-5 Task Force on Sexual Disorders.

Selected Publications

Meana, M. & Jones S. (in press). Developments and trends in sex therapy. In R. Balon (Ed.), Sexual dysfunction II: Beyond the brain-body connection. Basel: Karger Press.

Meana, M. & Binik, Y.M. (2011). Dyspareunia: Causes and treatments. In P.Vercellini (Ed.), Chronic Pelvic Pain. (pp. 125-136). New York: Wiley-Blackwell.

Donaldson, R., & Meana, M. (2011). Early dyspareunia experience in young women: Confusion, consequences, and help-seeking barriers. Journal of Sexual Medicine, 8, 814-823.

Lykins, A., Meana, M., & Minimi, J. (2011). Visual attention to erotic images in women reporting pain with intercourse. Journal of Sex Research, 48,43-52

Sims, K. & Meana. M. (2010). Why did passion wane? A qualitative study of married women's attributions for declines in desire. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 36, 360-380.

Meana, M. (2010). Elucidating women's (hetero)sexual desire: Definitional challenges and content expansion. Annual Review of Sex Research -Journal of Sex Research, 47, 104-122.

Binik, Y. M. & Meana, M. (2009). The future of sex therapy: Specialization or marginalization? Archives of Sexual Behavior, 38, 1016-1027.

Lykins, A., Meana, M., & Strauss, G. (2008). Sex differences in visual attention to erotic and non-erotic images. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 37, 219-228.