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Dr. Minwalla has been a lighthouse for patients, a lightning rod in the sex addiction field, and a source of illumination for mental-health professionals. Now, his 20-year journey of sitting with human beings and listening to human voices has become the vanishing point—where theories of infidelity and compulsive sexual behavior converge with treatments for systemic abuse, injustice and complex trauma into a plane of extraordinary space and vibrational science.
Staying true to his scientific observations and clinical work, Dr. Minwalla founded the Institute for Sexual Health (ISH) in 2009. Despite pushback, Dr. Minwalla’s voice remained true and persistent in his research, practice, and his unwavering advocacy for survivors. By naming “deceptive sexuality,” Dr. Minwalla illuminated the psychological operation of integrity-abuse used to enact infidelity. He identified a specified psychological abuse disorder and form of intimate partner abuse: Integrity-Abuse Disorder (IAD).
After two decades on the frontline as a first responder, Dr. Minwalla finally arrived at his simple and clear conclusion: Integrity-Abuse Disorder is thriving in darkness. The psychological operations of integrity-abuse remain occluded, insidious, and extend to society at large. Dr. Minwalla’s powerful educational metaphor, the “Secret Sexual Basement”, has made accessible to everyone the personal, relational, and sociological abuses that comprise deceptive sexuality.
So, after 20 years of clinical incubation, his story of figuring out how to better treat compulsive sexual behavior and infidelity— has resulted in Deceptive Sexuality and Trauma Treatment (DSTT), a clinical technology for the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of deceptive sexuality and trauma-related stress disorders. DSTT subsumes traditional treatments for infidelity, compulsive sexual behavior disorder, and sex addiction by illuminating decades of missing pieces, clinical errors, ethical deficits in current modalities, and both professional and cultural blind spots. However…this story doesn’t quite end here.
In 2022, Dr. Minwalla for the first time presented his grounded theory and work to a diverse group of professionals, outside of his clinical incubator. With peer-reflection and feedback, Dr. Minwalla recognized a unique language and method for the treatment of systemic abuse and complex trauma, called Intentional Vibe Trauma Treatment. IVTT is intended to help not just patients seeking psychological treatment, but to help humanity, and particularly survivor-centered communities, move towards truth, justice, and psychological health.
Intentional Vibe Trauma Treatment (IVTT) is an emerging model developed specifically for the treatment of systemic abuse, victimization, and complex trauma sequences. IVTT offers human beings— particularly survivor-centered communities— a conscious way to create extraordinary space to move the organic will and empathy of human beings towards justice, truth and psychological healing. Intentional Vibe Theory (IVT) postulates that Intentionally Manipulated Reality (IMR) promotes disease and Intentionally Accurate-Authentic Reality (IAR) promotes health.
