ABSTRACT

Doctors increasingly recognize that sexual unhappiness has serious effects on the health of individuals and families. Sexual function depends on our bodies and our minds and sexual problems may present with physical symptoms. Using case histories the book describes the practice of psychosexual medicine and explores the skills used by doctors therapists and counsellors. A systematic and comprehensive examination of this field for the first time this book places psychosexual medicine in context with other therapies. For those working at all levels throughout primary care including doctors and nurses in general practice and in family planning clinics therapists and counsellors and for specialists in the fields of genito-urinary medicine gynaecology andrology and urology Blocks and Freedoms in Sexual Life is an essential reference and a tool for increasing the scope and effectiveness of their work.

part I|39 pages

Aspects of Doctoring

chapter 1|13 pages

A psychosexual body/mind approach

chapter 2|12 pages

The physical examination

part II|71 pages

Symptoms and Feelings

chapter 4|12 pages

Making sense of symptoms

chapter 5|12 pages

'I'm not that sort of girl' - or boy

chapter 6|12 pages

Body fantasies

chapter 7|11 pages

Sex, anger and the couple

chapter 8|12 pages

Sex and childbirth

chapter 9|10 pages

Loss and vulnerability

part III|24 pages

Making Connections

chapter 10|11 pages

From the body to the mind

chapter 11|11 pages

From the mind to the body