Handbook of Clinical Sexuality for Mental Health Professionals

Rev. ed. of: Handbook of clinical sexuality for mental health professionals. 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Sect. I. Being a Therapist -- Ch. 1. Listening to Sexual Stories / Candace B. Risen -- Ch. 2. Understanding and Managing Professional-Client Boundaries / S. Michael Plaut -- Sect. II. Sexual Intimacy: Hopes and Disappointments -- Ch. 3. What Patients Mean by Love, Intimacy, and Sexual Desire / Stephen B. Levine -- Ch. 4. Lessons From Great Lovers / Peggy J. Kleinplatz -- Ch. 5. How Development Structures Relationships / David E. Scharff -- Ch. 6. Infidelity / Stephen B. Levine -- Ch. 7. When Love and Sex Go Wrong: Helping Couples in Distress / Marta Meana -- Ch. 8. Single Again / Lin S. Myers -- Sect. III. Sexual Dysfunction: Women's Sexual Issues -- Ch. 9. When Do We Say a Woman's Sexuality Is Dysfunctional? / Sharon G. Nathan -- Ch. 10. Women's Difficulties With Low Sexual Desire, Sexual Avoidance, and Sexual Aversion / Rosemary Basson -- Ch. 11. Female Orgasmic Disorder / Karen M. Donahey -- Ch. 12. Painful Sex / Sophie Bergeron, Marta Meana, Yitzchak M. Binik and Samir Khalife -- Ch. 13. The Sexual Impact of Menopause / Lorraine Dennerstein -- Sect. IV. Sexual Dysfunction: Men's Sexual Issues -- Ch. 14. The Sexual Challenges and Dilemmas of Young Single Men / Derek C. Polonsky -- Ch. 15. Combining Medical and Psychological Interventions for the Treatment of Erectile Dysfunction / Stanley E. Althof and Raymond C. Rosen -- Ch. 16. Premature Ejaculation and Delayed Ejaculation / Marcel D. Waldinger -- Sect. V. Additional Vital Topics -- Ch. 17. Confronting Sexual Trauma and Enhancing Adult Sexuality / Barry W. McCarthy and Alisa Breetz -- Ch. 18. Recognizing and Reversing Sexual Side Effects of Medications / R. Taylor Segraves and Richard Balon -- Ch. 19. Sexual Consequences of Cancer Survivorship / Lori A. Brotto and Sheryl A. Kingsberg -- Sect. VI. Sexual Identity Struggles -- Ch. 20. Understanding Gay and Lesbian Life / David L. Scott and Stephen B. Levine -- Ch. 21. Male and Female Homosexuality in Heterosexual Life / Richard C. Friedman and Jennifer I. Downey -- Ch. 22. Men Who Are Not in Control of Their Sexual Behavior / I. David Marcus -- Ch. 23. Paraphilic Worlds / J. Paul Fedoroff -- Ch. 24. Understanding Transgendered Phenomena / Friedemann Pfafflin -- Sect. VII. The Forgotten -- Ch. 25. Sexual Disorders and Intellectual Disabilities / J. Paul Fedoroff and Deborah A. Richards -- Ch. 26. Sex and Chronic and Severe Mental Illness / William L. Maurice and Morag Yule.