SoPSS: Systemic Sex Therapy

Offering useful treatment innovations, this volume opens with a clear review of dynamically based theories that provide a solid introduction to understanding and treating adult survivors of sexual abuse.

Describes and evaluates the current methods of measuring sexual interest in sex offenders - namely penile plethysmography.

Accessible, practical guide to helping these victims through the healing process. This book will be a useful tool for professionals dealing with the counseling and/or treatment of sexually abused clients.

Book chapter presents an approach to these intimacy problems that unites systemic treatment and sex therapy as powerful triggers for personal development.

Chapter from An Introduction to Clinical Psychology. Topics include psychosexual problems of infancy, childhood, young adulthood, adulthood, and the treatment of those with psychosexual and marital problems.

Drawing on their 40 years of combined clinical experience and a unique longitudinal study of couples and families, they propose that sexual problems are largely related to defenses acquired through painful childhood experiences.

This comprehensive textbook, intended for graduate students in couple and family therapy programs as well as for clinicians of diverse orientations, offers descriptive discussions of sex therapy based on the Intersystem Approach, as developed by Gerald Weeks.

Drawing on their experience as practitioners, the authors explore the reactions which children commonly experience following abuse and examine the tasks of the therapist in responding to them.

Primarily oriented towards treating adult survivors, this invaluable book will also be useful for treating sex offenders.

Book chapter presents the case of a 55 and 54 yr old couple—married for 36 years—who were referred for treatment of male impotence and paraphiliac arousal patterns. The treatment strategy used was sensate focus sexual therapy.