Sex, Mind And Emotion

by Hiller, Janice; Wood, Heather; Bolton, Winifred

• ISBN13: 9781855753495
• ISBN10: 1855753499
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-31
• Publisher: KARNAC BOOKS

Summary

Recent decades have seen a decline in the emphasis on sexuality in psychoanalytic theory, whilst clinical psychology has become more involved in sexual health issues. Sexuality remains at the core of human experience and where there are psychological and psychotherapeutic treatments, there will be sexual issues to be addressed. Sex, Mind, and Emotion is a collection of predominantly clinical papers, exploring innovative work in the field. The central tenet of the book is that sexual behaviour cannot be divorced from the emotional context in which it occurs or the meaning of that behaviour to the individual and therefore no chapter is about sex without also addressing "mind" and "emotion". Book jacket.

Table of Contents

ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS	vii
INTRODUCTION	xi
PART I: DEVELOPMENTS IN THEORY	1	(62)
CHAPTER ONE Sex, mind, and emotion through the life course: a biopsychosocial perspective
Janice Hiller	3	(38)
CHAPTER TWO Developmental theory and developmental deficits: the treatment of sex offenders with Asperger's Syndrome
Winifred Bolton	41	(22)
PART II: CLIENT GROUPS POSING NEW CHALLENGES	63	(120)
CHAPTER THREE Compulsive use of internet pornography
Heather Wood	65	(22)
CHAPTER FOUR Psychosexual development in adolescents growing up with HIV infection in London
Brigid Hekster and Diane Melvin	87	(28)
CHAPTER FIVE The psychodynamics of unsafe sex
Simon Thomas and Bernard Ratigan	115	(22)
CHAPTER SIX Refugees and sexuality
Sarah Zetler	137	(26)
CHAPTER SEVEN He or she? Trying to think psychodynamically about a service for people with gender dysphoria
Bernard Ratigan	163	(20)
PART III: INNOVATIVE THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES	183	(104)
CHAPTER EIGHT Psychological treatment for survivors of rape and sexual assault
Anne-Marie Doyle	185	(24)
CHAPTER NINE Systemic therapy techniques for sexual difficulties
Naomi Adams	209	(20)
CHAPTER TEN Borderline sexuality: sexually addictive behaviour in the context of a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder
Deirdre Williams	229	(20)
CHAPTER ELEVEN Psychoanalytically-informed CAT: a first treatment for problems of sexual relationships
Heather Wood	249	(24)
CHAPTER TWELVE Loss of sexual interest and negative states of mind
Janice Hiller	273	(14)
INDEX	287