Masculinity and Sexuality: Selected Topics in the Psychology of Men sheds light on clinical issues important in the treatment of all male patients. Sexual experiences and related attitudes of patients and therapists influence symptoms, treatment, and outcome across diverse diagnostic categories. Chapters cover clinical issues related to • Men's sexual thoughts, impulses, and desires and the way they are organized into erotic fantasies including the differences that exist in the way men and women experience sexual fantasy• Heterosexuality as part of a developmental phase that includes the capacity for intimacy and love• Erectile dysfunction including a paradigm for integrating the biological and psychological factors that together influence male sexual dysfunction• The role of fatherhood in psychological development during adulthood• The casualties of recovered memory therapy—the victimization of fathers by children who make false allegations of sexual abuse
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Masculinity and Sexuality: Selected Topics in the Psychology of Men sheds light on clinical issues important in the treatment of all male patients. Sexual experiences and related attitudes of patients and therapists influence symptoms, treatment, and outcome across diverse diagnostic categories.
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Foreword. Sexual fantasy and behavior: selected clinical issues. Male heterosexuality. Evaluation and treatment of erectile dysfunction. Fatherhood as a transformation of the self: steps toward a new psychology of men. Casualties of recovered memory therapy: the impact of false allegations of incest on accused fathers. Afterword. Index.
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Masculinity and Sexuality: Selected Topics in the Psychology of Men sheds light on clinical issues important in the treatment of all male patients. Sexual experiences and related attitudes of patients and therapists influence symptoms, treatment, and outcome across diverse diagnostic categories. Chapters cover clinical issues related to • Men's sexual thoughts, impulses, and desires and the way they are organized into erotic fantasies including the differences that exist in the way men and women experience sexual fantasy• Heterosexuality as part of a developmental phase that includes the capacity for intimacy and love• Erectile dysfunction including a paradigm for integrating the biological and psychological factors that together influence male sexual dysfunction• The role of fatherhood in psychological development during adulthood• The casualties of recovered memory therapy—the victimization of fathers by children who make false allegations of sexual abuse
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Product details

ISBN
9780880489621
Published
1999-10-31
Publisher
American Psychiatric Association Publishing; American Psychiatric Association Publishing
Weight
272 gr
Height
229 mm
Width
150 mm
Thickness
9 mm
Age
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
172

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Biographical note

Richard C. Friedman, M.D., is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Cornell University School of Medicine and Lecturer at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, New York. Jennifer I. Downey, M.D., is Associate Clinical Professor Psychiatry, and Director of Psych-oncology at the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, New York.