1st Edition
Blocks and Freedoms in Sexual Life A Handbook of Psychosexual Medicine
By Ruth Skrine
Copyright 1997
120 Pages
by
CRC Press
120 Pages
by
CRC Press
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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... Read more
Aspects of doctoring: a psychosexual body/mind approach. The phyiscal examination. Psychodynamics and the doctor-patient partnership. Symptoms and feelings: making sense of symptoms. 'I'm not that sort of girl' - or boy. Body fantasies. Sex, and anger and the couple. Sex and childbirth. Loss and vulnerability. Making connections: from body to the mind. From the mind to the body.
Biography
Ruth Skrine
