Meana

Faculty

Marta Meana, Ph.D.

Professor

Program:

Clinical

Email:

marta.meana@unlv.edu

Phone:

(702) 895-0184

Accepting Graduate Students 2010-2011: YES

Research Interests

Marta Meana is interested in sexuality. She is particularly interested in female sexual health, how it works, how it breaks down, and how it compares to male sexuality. Her work focuses on the sexual pain disorders and on conceptualizations and mechanisms of female sexual desire. 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-Elect of the Society for Sex Therapy and Research, is on the Editorial Boards of the Archives of Sexual Behavior,the Journal of Sex Research, andthe Journal of Sexual Medicine, and she is an advisor to the DSM-V Task Force on Sexual Disorders.

Selected Publications

Meana, M. (in press). When love and sex go wrong: Helping couples in distress. In S. Levine (Ed.), Handbook of clinical sexuality for mental health professionals, 2^nd ed.. Philadelphia: Brunner/Routledge.

Binik, Y. M. & Meana, M. (in press). The future of sex therapy: Specialization or marginalization? Archives of Sexual Behavior.

Meana, M., Benuto, L., & Donaldson, R. (2009). The relevance of dyspareunia. In A. Goldstein, I. Goldstein, & C. Pukall (Eds.), Female sexual pain disorders: Evaluation and management (pp. 9-13). New York: Blackwell Publishing.

Thaler, L., Meana, M., & Lanti, A. (2009). Misremembering pain: Memory biases for pain words in women reporting pain with intercourse. Journal of Sexual Medicine, 6, 1369-1377.

Meana, M. (2009). Painful intercourse: Dyspareunia and vaginismus. In K. Hartlein, G. Weeks, & N. Gambescia (Eds.), Systemic sex therapy (pp. 237-262). New York: Taylor & Francis.

Meana, M. & Lykins, A. (2009). Negative affect and somatic focus in young women reporting pain with intercourse. Journal of Sex Research, 46, 1-9.

Benuto, L. & Meana, M. (2008). Acculturation and sexuality: Testing the theory of female erotic plasticity. Journal of Sex Research, 45, 217-224.

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.