Psychodynamic Approaches to Sexual Problems

Psychodynamic Approaches to Sexual Problems

Author: Brian Daines

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

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* How do we currently understand sexual dysfunction? * How can psychodynamic theories contribute to an understanding of sexual difficulties? * How can we treat sexual problems psychodynamically? Counsellors and therapists can be hesitant about addressing the sexual problems of their clients from any perspective and sometimes lack the confidence to tackle the issues as they arise. This is the first book to describe comprehensively a specifically psychodynamic approach to sexual dysfunction. It reviews the range and nature of sexual difficulties, and evaluates the relevance of psychodynamic theory and interventions to the understanding, assessment and treatment of sexual problems with individuals and couples. It is illustrated throughout with helpful case study material. It shows how physical and cultural understandings of sexuality and sexual difficulty need to be an integrated part of work with clients. Psychodynamic Approaches to Sexual Problems is an important and useful book for all trainee and practising counsellors and therapists working within a psychodynamic or integrated framework.


Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Sexual Problems

Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Sexual Problems

Author: Stephen B. Levine, M.D.

Publisher: American Psychiatric Pub

Published: 2019-11-05

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1615372830

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The book aims to increase the comfort of both mental health trainees and advanced practitioners in assisting patients with their sexual concerns. The author provides a thoughtful discussion of the nature of love--as an active, evolving process involving psychological intimacy, intense sexual interest, and commitment--and shows how sexual problems create barriers to loving.


Attachment and Sexuality

Attachment and Sexuality

Author: Diana Diamond

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2011-06-23

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1136871438

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The papers featured in Attachment and Sexuality create a dense tapestry, each forming a separate narrative strand that elucidates different configurations of the relationship between attachment and sexuality. As a whole, the volume explores the areas of convergence and divergence, opposition, and integration between these two systems. It suggests that there is a bi-directional web of influences that weaves the attachment and sexual systems together in increasingly complex ways from infancy to adulthood. The volume’s unifying thread is the idea that the attachment system, and particularly the degree of felt security, or lack thereof in relation to early attachment figures, provides a paradigm of relatedness that forms a scaffold for the developmental unfolding of sexuality in all its manifestations. Such manifestations include infantile and adult, masturbatory and mutual, and normative and perverse. Also central to the papers is the idea that the development of secure attachment is predicated, in part, on the development of the capacity for mentalization, or the ability to envision and interpret the behavior of oneself and others in terms of intentional mental states, including desires, feelings, beliefs, and motivations. Topics discussed in the book will help to shape the direction and tenor of further dialogues in the arena of attachment and sexuality.


Treating Sexual Disorders

Treating Sexual Disorders

Author: Randolph S. Charlton

Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13:

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Crafted to be accessible to novice clinicians, experienced therapists, as well as experts in sexual dysfunction, this book is filled with down-to-earth advice and case examples. The book provides clinicians with the necessary tools to understand the basics behind the formulation of effective treatment of sexual dysfunction. Numerous clinical examples are presented to show how the author arrived at a treatment strategy.


New Sex Therapy

New Sex Therapy

Author: Helen Singer Kaplan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-28

Total Pages: 555

ISBN-13: 1135821364

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First published in 1975. The last two decades have brought remarkable advances in our knowledge of human sexuality. These data are in the process of being assimilated into the main body of psychiatric thought, which is being greatly enriched thereby. Our increased understanding of sexuality is also currently being translated into innovative new approaches to the treatment of sexual difficulties. These developments promise relief to many persons with distressing sexual problems who were previously thought to be beyond help. At the present time, the specific approach to sex therapy described in this volume is being employed, further developed and, most important, systematically evaluated at the Sex Therapy and Education Program of the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic of the Cornell University-New York Hospital Center. The Cornell program is psychiatrically oriented. It regards sex therapy as a specialized branch of psychotherapy. The Clinic conceives of sexual dysfunctions as psychosomatic symptoms and it’s orientation is multicausal and eclectic in that it believes that sexual dysfunctions are the product of multiple etiologic factors, and our treatment armamentarium comprises an amalgam of experiential, behavioral and dynamically oriented modalities.


Psychodynamic Therapy

Psychodynamic Therapy

Author: Richard F. Summers

Publisher: Guilford Press

Published: 2012-11-01

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 1462509703

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Presenting a pragmatic, evidence-based approach to conducting psychodynamic therapy, this engaging guide is firmly grounded in contemporary clinical practice and research. The book reflects an openness to new influences on dynamic technique, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy and positive psychology. It offers a fresh understanding of the most common problems for which patients seek help -- depression, obsessionality, low self-esteem, fear of abandonment, panic, and trauma -- and shows how to organize and deliver effective psychodynamic interventions. Extensive case material illustrates each stage of therapy, from engagement to termination. Special topics include ways to integrate individual treatment with psychopharmacology and with couple or family work.


The Wiley Handbook of Sex Therapy

The Wiley Handbook of Sex Therapy

Author: Zoë D. Peterson

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2017-04-24

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 1118510372

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The Wiley Handbook of Sex Therapy ist ein umfassendes und auf empirischer Basis überarbeitetes Werk zur jüngsten Theorie und Praxis in der psychotherapeutischen Behandlung sexueller Probleme quer durch alle Klientengruppen. -In vier Abschnitten werden spezifische sexuelle Fehlfunktionen, theoretische Ansätze der Sexualtherapie, die Arbeit mit der Diversität der Klienten und zukünftige Richtungen in der Sexualtherapie dargestellt. -Vertritt einen ganzheitlichen Ansatz in der Sexualtherapie, fokussiert auf die Anwendung einer Bandbreite psychotherapeutischer Theorien und Techniken mehr als nur auf die gängigen Verhaltensstrategien. -Fallstudien dokumentieren das breite Spektrum an Zuständen, die Klienten erleben können und die Sexualtherapeuten daher im Beratungsraum antreffen. -Enthält Beiträge von mehr als 60 Experten verschiedenster Fachrichtungen.


Sexual Orientation and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Sexual Orientation and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Author: Richard C. Friedman

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 0231120575

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This book bridges psychoanalytic thought and sexual science. It brings sexuality back to the center of psychoanalysis and shows how important it is for students of human sexuality to understand motives that are often irrational and unconscious. The authors present a new perspective about male and female development, emphasizing the ways in which sexual orientation and homophobia appear early in life. The clinical section of the book focuses on the psychodynamics and treatment of homophobia and internalized homophobia.


Psychodynamic Therapy Techniques

Psychodynamic Therapy Techniques

Author: Brian A. Sharpless

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2019-03-06

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0190676280

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Psychodynamic therapy has a growing evidence base, is cost-effective, and may have unique mechanisms of clinical change. However, gaining competence in this approach generally requires extensive training and mastery of a large and complex literature. Integrating clinical theory and research findings, Psychodynamic Therapy Techniques provides comprehensive but practical guidance on the main interventions of contemporary psychodynamic practice. Early chapters describe the psychodynamic "stance" and illustrate effective means of identifying and understanding clinical problems. Later, the book describes how to question, clarify, confront, and interpret patient material as well as assess the clinical impacts of interventions. With these foundational tools in place, the book supplements the "classic" psychodynamic therapy techniques with six sets of supportive interventions helpful for lower-functioning patients or those in acute crisis. Complete with step-by-step instructions on how to prepare techniques as well as numerous clinical vignettes to illustrate their use in clinical settings, Psychodynamic Therapy Techniques effectively demystifies this important approach to therapy and helps practitioners more effectively apply them to a wide range of patients and problems.