Gerald R. Weeks

Gerald R. Weeks, Ph.D., ABPP, CST is Professor Emeritus in the Program in Couple and Family Therapy at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. He has been a licensed psychologist, Fellow, Approved-Supervisor, and Clinical Member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy, and is a Diplomate and Senior Examiner of the American Board of Couple and Family Psychology of the American Board of Professional Psychology and a Diplomate of the American Board of Sexology. He is also a Certified Sex Therapist and Certified Supervisor of Sex Therapists of the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists. He has published a widely diverse spectrum of 30 advanced professional texts, including one or more "classic" texts in the fields of individual, sex, marital, and family therapy. His first book, Paradoxical Psychotherapy (with Lou L'Abate, 1982) became a national and international best-selling text and was reprinted in multiple languages. The text sold over 100,000 copies and was one of the publishers best-selling academic books for over 5 years. Several of his books are widely used in marriage and family programs in the U.S. and abroad. His Couples in Treatment (with S.Fife, 2013) book is now in its 3rd edition. His co-authored and co-edited Systemic Sex Therapy is now available in a 3rd. edition and he is the major author of the Clinician's Guide to Sex Therapy which is also available in a 3rd edition. These two books won major awards from AASECT. He has also published dozens of scientific papers and book chapters in edited professional books. In 2009, he received the "Outstanding Contribution the Marriage and Family Therapy" award (the 16th awardee in 60 years) from the American Association of Marriage and Family therapy and the next year was named, "2010 Family Psychologist of the Year" by the Academy of Family Psychology. One of his major contributions to the fields of couple and sex therapy is the development of a new paradigm of psychotherapy known as the Intersystem Approach which was based on a meta-theoretical paper published in 1977. He is also the founder of the Integrative/Systemic/Intersystemic approach to sex therapy. Between 1987 and 2020, he published 9 books and numerous papers and chapters based on this approach. One of the earliest books was titled, Integrating Sex and Marital Therapy (1987), which has lead to many other integrative approaches in the field of sex therapy. He was the first author to write about the integration of couple/marital and sex therapy as well as integrative approaches in psychotherapy as well. He has published 6 academic texts on systemic sex therapy--the first texts to describe the theory and application of the shift from an individual/behavioral paradigm to a systemic paradigm. Dr. Weeks served as Program Director of COAMFTE-accredited programs for 27 years at the Marriage Council of Philadelphia/Division of Family Studies/University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (now Council for Relationship) where marriage therapy was first developed. He founded the Institute for Sex Therapy around 1990 while directing the COAMFTE program at the Marriage Council of Philadelphia. Beginning in 1999, he developed an undergraduate program in Family Studies and a graduate program in Couple and Family Therapy at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. Other accomplishments involve being one of the founders of the field of Family Psychology. He was President of the American Board of Family Psychology for two terms (1986/1987) and wrote the initial document specifying the knowledge base of Family Psychology and the standards for training and Board Certification as a Family Psychologist. Dr. Weeks has lectured and presented training workshops extensively throughout North American, Australia and Europe on sex and couple therapy. Over the past 40 years, he has practiced, taught, conducted research and supervised individual, sex, couple, and family therapy. He continues to practice, write and lecture nationally and internationally. Additional information can be obtained by googling, "Gerald R. Weeks"