David Schnarch
Clinical psychologist and sex therapist
David Schnarch was an American clinical psychologist and sex therapist who wrote about intimacy and relationships. He founded Crucible Therapy, which joins marital and sexual therapy.
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American Born 1946 in New York City, United States Died 2020
About David Schnarch
David Schnarch was born in New York City in 1946 and died in Evergreen, Colorado, in 2020. He was a licensed clinical psychologist and a certified sex therapist. He received awards from both the American Psychological Association and the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. He founded Crucible Therapy, an approach that brings marital and sexual therapy together. In 1991 he wrote Constructing The Sexual Crucible, a text used in graduate training programs. For general readers he wrote Passionate Marriage, Resurrecting Sex and Intimacy & Desire. These books appeared in seven languages and became international best-sellers. His later book Brain Talk came out in 2018.