Marta Crawford

Marta Crawford is a Portuguese psychologist and author, specialising in clinical sexology. She frequently appears on Portuguese TV to discuss matters related to sexual therapy.

Background

Marta Crawford was born on 27 April 1969. She has two sisters and a brother. She spent two years of her childhood in the USA, where her mother was doing a PhD. Crawford is Portuguese, taking her surname from her former husband, Filipe Crawford, an actor, who has Scottish ancestors. Marta Crawford, herself, initially had ambitions to be an actor and joined an amateur group in

After completing her master's degree Crawford worked until 2005 as a therapist on a telephone Hotline called SOS Difficulties. She has served as a teacher at Universidade Lusófona, and has also worked at the Instituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional (Institute of Employment and Professional Training), collaborating in the psychological monitoring of users of the Behavioral Psychotherapy Service of the Júlio de Matos Hospital, a psychiatric hospital. Crawford does private clinical practice in Lisbon.[1]^[2][3]

Crawford has appeared in numerous television programmes, including, in 1992, as an actor. She presented a programme called AB…Sexo on

In 2015 Crawford announced she had formed a company with the idea of establishing a Museum of Sexuality, which would have a pedagogical purpose. She was seeking crowdfunding for the museum.[2]^[6]

Publications

Crawford has published three books in Portuguese. They are:^[3][7][8]

• Sexo sem tabus: para viver o sexo com prazer (Sex without Taboos), (published by Esfera dos Livros) 2006.
• Viver o Sexo Com Prazer (Living Sex with Pleasure-Guide to Female Sexuality), (Esfera dos Livros). 2008.
• Diário Sexual e Conjugal de um Casal (A Couple's Sexual and Conjugal Diary), (Esfera dos Livros). 2011

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