Handbook of Clinical Sexuality for Mental Health Professionals

Stephen B. Levine, MD (editor) is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio. Candace B. Risen, LISW (associate editor), is Assistant Clinical Professor of Social Work in the Department of Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio. Stanley E. Althof, PhD (associate editor), is Voluntary Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Miami, Florida.

Preface to the First Edition. Levine, Risen, Althof, Preface to the Second Edition. Part I: Being a Therapist. Risen, Listening to Sexual Stories. Plaut, Understanding and Managing Professional-client Boundaries. Part II: Sexual Intimacy: Hopes and Disappointments. Levine, What Patients Mean by Love, Intimacy, and Sexual Desire. Kleinplatz, Lessons from Great Lovers. Scharff, How Development Structures Relationships. Levine, Infidelity. Meana, When Love and Sex Go Wrong: Helping Couples in Distress. Myers, Single Again. Part III: Sexual Dysfunction: Women's Sexual Issues. Nathan, When Do We Say a Woman's Sexuality is Dysfunctional? Basson, Women's Difficulties With Low Sexual Desire, Sexual Avoidance, and Sexual Aversion. Donahey, Female Orgasmic Disorder. Bergeron, Meana, Binik, Khalife, Painful Sex. Dennerstein, The Sexual Impact of Menopause. Part IV: Sexual Dysfunction: Men's Sexual Issues. Polonsky, The Sexual Challenges and Dilemmas of Young Single Men. Althof, Rosen, Combining Medical and Psychological Interventions for the Treatment of Erectile Dysfunction. Waldinger, Premature Ejaculation and Delayed Ejaculation. Part V: Additional Vital Topics. McCarthy, Breetz, Confronting Sexual Trauma and Enhancing Adult Sexuality. Segraves, Balon, Recognizing and Reversing Sexual Side Effects of Medications. Brotto, Kingsberg, Sexual Consequences of Cancer Survivorship. Part VI: Sexual Identity Struggles. Scott, Levine, Understanding Gay and Lesbian Life. Friedman, Downey, Male and Female Homosexuality in Heterosexual Life. Marcus, Men Who Are Not in Control of Their Sexual Behavior. Fedoroff, Paraphilic Worlds. Pfafflin, Understanding Transgendered Phenomena. Part VII: The Forgotten. Fedoroff, Richards, Sexual Disorders and Intellectual Disabilities. Maurice, Yule, Sex and Chronic and Severe Mental Illness.