Sexuality: A Biopsychosocial Approach

Author(s) : Chess Denman

Sexuality: A Biopsychosocial Approach

Book Details

  • Publisher : Palgrave
  • Published : 2004
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Category :
    Individual Psychotherapy
  • Catalogue No : 92122
  • ISBN 13 : 9780333786482
  • ISBN 10 : 0333786483

Reviews and Endorsements

Issues of sexuality in the consulting room, including transference and countertransference, are discussed and, throughout, therapeutic approaches to sexual problems are presented. The human capacity for inventive imagining is presented as an important force for beneficial change and, in relation to sexuality, discussed in terms of the 'erotic imagination'.

Contents:
Introduction
Approaches I - Biology and Sociobiology
Approaches II - Anthropology, Sociology, Feminism
Approaches III - Psychological Approaches
Male and Female Heterosexuality
Lesbians and Gay Men
Transgressive and Coercive Sex
Transgendered People: The Plasticity of Gender
Sexology and Sex Therapy
Sex in the Consulting Room
Conclusion

Author Biographies:
DR CHESS DENMAN is Consultant Psychotherapist and Head of Psychotherapy at Addenbrookes Hospital, and Associate Clinical Lecturer, University of Cambridge and Associate Lecturer, University of East Anglia.

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