Full Description
This authoritative text for those training in Sexual Medicine now returns in a new edition that builds on what clinicians found most useful in the previous editions - physical and psychological background knowledge and all relevant treatments, combined with psychological therapies, principles, and case examples applied to common problems.
Contents
Contributors
PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. The Institute of Psychosexual Medicine Approach to Psychosexual Medicine as Practised by Health Professionals
Margaret Denman
2. Identifying and Managing Problems in Different Settings
Margaret Denman
3. When Bodies Speak: Psychosomatic Illness as Hidden Communication
Sandy Goldbeck-Wood
4. Talking about Sex
Catherine Hood
PART II: PHYSIOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY
5. Physical Aspects of the Sex Response
Ian K. Walsh
6. Psychological Background to Psychosexual Medicine
Caroline Hunter
7. Interaction of Mind and Body in Psychosexual Medicine
Caroline Hunter
8. Physical Treatments for Sexual Problems
Nicola Carter
9. Sex and Disability
Nichola Chater
PART III: SKILLS
10. Basic Communication Skills: The Here and Now/There and Then
Gillian Vanhegan
11. Defences in the Consultation: Developing Interpretative Skills
Andrew Stainer-Smith
12. The Psychosexual Genital Examination
Jasmin Khan-Singh
PART IV: APPLYING THE SKILLS TO THE PROBLEM
13. Vaginismus and Non-Consummation
Claudine Domoney
14. Female Sexual Desire
Annie Hawkins
15. Erectile Dysfunction
Catherine Coulson
16. Ejaculation Disorders
Gareth Hughes
17. Problems with Female Orgasm
Fiona Cowan
18. Sexual Pain Disorders
Nikki M.W. Lee and Leila C.G. Frodsham
19. Tocophobia
Leila C.G. Frodsham
20. Psychosexual Aspects of Sexual Preference and Gender Identity Issues
Susan V. Carr
21. Internet Pornography: Addiction or Sexual Dysfunction?
Catherine White
22. Non-Consensual Sex and Psychosexual Problems
Sally Soodeen
23. Vaginal Dysmorphia
Clare Gribbin
24. Psychosexual Problems Approaching the End of Life
Marian Davis
PART V: EFFECTIVENESS, SERVICES AND TRAINING
25. Measuring Efficacy in Psychosexual Medicine
Philipa A. Brough
26. Services
Philipa A. Brough
27. Training in Psychosexual Medicine
Jasmin Khan-Singh
Index
