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Welcome to episode 162 of the Sexology Podcast! Today it’s my pleasure to welcome Amir Mohebbi to the podcast. In this episode Amir speaks with me about Sexsomnia, the behavioral patterns around this issue and what treatment can look like.
Amir Mohebbi is a proud Iranian-American currently completing his psychiatry residency at St. Louis University. He trained under mentorship from world-renowned forensic psychiatrists, Drs. William J. Newman and Brian J. Holoyda, whom co=authored a review related to his interests in sleep medicine and forensics entitled “Sexsomnia as a Defense in Repeated Sex Crimes”.
Amir presented his work alongside an expert panel consisting of forensic psychiatrists at the American Psychiatric Association 175th Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA. In 2020, he will join a panel consisting of sleep medicine experts at the SLEEP 2020 conference hosted by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the Sleep Research Society in Philadelphia, PA. He earned his medical degree from St. Louis University and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from the University of California, Irvine.
In This Episode You Will Hear:
- What is Sexsomnia?
- Looking at the behaviors people are showing and engaging in
- Sexual acts people can perform in their sleep
- Looking at this through a psychiatric lens
- What treatment for Sexsomnia looks like
- The relationship between this condition and criminal law
- How this issue stretches back hundreds of years
- Why lawyers are very skeptical of Sexsomnia
- Evaluations that can be made around Sexsomnia
- Taking a look at ictal orgasms
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