New Sex Therapy

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.

Helen Singer Kaplan, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Coordinator of Student Teaching of Psychiatry, Corne ll University College of Medicine; Head of the Sex Therapy and Education Program, Payne Whitney Clinic of the New York Hospital.

Part I AREA I BASIC CONCEPTS; Chapter 1 THE ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE SEXUAL RESPONSE; Chapter 2 CHAPTER 2 THE BRAIN AND SEX; Chapter 3 CHAPTER 3 HORMONES AND SEX; Part II AREA II ETIOLOGY; Section A The Biological Determinants of the Sexual Dysfunctions; Chapter 4 CHAPTER 4 THE EFFECTS OF ILLNESS ON SEXUALITY; Chapter 5 CHAPTER 5 THE EFFECTS OF DRUGS ON SEXUALITY; Chapter 6 CHAPTER 6 THE EFFECTS OF AGE ON SEXUALITY; Section B The Psychological Determinants of the Sexual Dysfunctions; Chapter 7 CHAPTER 7 THE IMMEDIATE CAUSES OF SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS; Chapter 8 CHAPTER 8 CONFLICT-INTRAPSYCHIC CAUSES OF SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS; Chapter 9 CHAPTER 9 THE RELATIONSHIP-DYADIC CAUSES OF SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS; Chapter 10 CHAPTER 10 LEARNED CAUSES OF SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS; Part III AREA III TREATMENT; Chapter 11 CHAPTER 11 BASIC PRINCIPLES OF SEX THERAPY; Chapter 12 CHAPTER 12 THE THERAPEUTIC EXPERIENCES; Chapter 13 CHAPTER 13 THE PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC SESSION; Chapter 14 CHAPTER 14 OTHER ISSUES IN SEX THERAPY: CONJOINT TREATMENT OF COUPLES, THE USE OF CO-THERAPISTS, TRANSFERENCE AND COUNTER-TRANSFERENCE; Part 4 AREA IV THE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS; Section A The Sexual Dysfunctions of the Male; Chapter 15 CHAPTER 15 ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION (IMPOTENCE); Chapter 16 CHAPTER 16 PREMATURE EJACULATION; Chapter 17 CHAPTER 17 RETARDED EJACULATION; Section B The Sexual Dysfunctions of the Female; Chapter 18 CHAPTER 18 GENERAL SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION (FRIGIDITY); Chapter 19 CHAPTER 19 ORGASTIC DYSFUNCTION; Chapter 20 CHAPTER 20 VAGINISMUS; Part 5 AREA V RESULTS; Chapter 21 CHAPTER 21 THE RESULTS OF SEX THERAPY; Part VI AREA VI SPECIAL CLINICAL PROBLEMS; Chapter 22 CHAPTER 22 SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS IN BOTH PARTNERS; Chapter 23 CHAPTER 23 SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS AND PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS; Chapter 24 CHAPTER 24 SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS AND MARITAL DISCORD, Clifford J. Sager; EPILOGUE Index;