ABSTRACT

The first of its kind, this book applies existential principles to sexual problems, providing clinicians with the tools to understand male sexuality more deeply.

Alighting from the existential psychotherapy tenets of Irvin D. Yalom, Watter introduces the notion that the penis is a conduit for male emotion, and hence regulates their ability to form and experience intimate relationships. Subsequent chapters explore an existential view of male sexual dysfunction, non-sexual trauma, hypersexuality, changing bodies through illness, age, and injury, and examines badly behaved men to understand the meaning of certain behaviors. 

This book will be an invaluable resource for sex therapists, marriage and family therapists, psychologists, and social workers in practice and in training, assisting them to develop the therapeutic skills that will improve their understanding of men’s psychological experience.

chapter |12 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|17 pages

The Penis Speaks

An Existential View of Male Sexual Dysfunction

chapter 3|21 pages

Death

The Unavoidable Condition

chapter 4|22 pages

Existential Sex Therapy

chapter 5|16 pages

Hypersexuality, Sex Addiction, Out-of-Control Sexual Behavior

A Diagnostic Dilemma?

chapter 6|18 pages

Why Men Behave Badly

chapter 7|18 pages

Aging

The Penis Speaks, but Sometimes It Whispers

chapter |4 pages

And in the End …