4th Edition
Introduction to Psychosexual Medicine
List of Editors and Contributors
About this Book
1 Identifying and Managing Problems in Different Settings
Margaret Denman
2. When Bodies Speak: Psychosomatic Illness as Hidden Communication
Sandy Goldbeck-Wood
3. Talking about sex
Catherine Hood
4. Physical aspects of the sex response
Ian Walsh
5. Psychological background to psychosexual medicine
Caroline Hunter
6. Interaction of mind and body in psychosexual medicine
Caroline Hunter
7 Psychological treatments for psychosexual problems
Julia Pugh
8. Physical treatments for sexual problems
Nicola Carter, Edited and updated by Angela Wright
9. Communication skills; the Practitioner Patient Relationship and the Here and Now
Laura Jarvis
10. Defences: Their Recognition, Reflection and Interpretation
Jeanette McGorrigan
11. The Psychotherapeutic Genital Examination
Jasmin Khan Singh
12. Sex and Disability
Nichola Chater
13. Vaginismus and Non-Consummation
Claudine Domoney
14. Lack of sexual desire
Annie Hawkins
15. Erectile dysfunction
Nicola Valentine
16. Disorders of Ejaculation and Male Orgasm (DEO)
Gareth Hughes, reviewed & updated by Catherine White, Urological review by Mary Brown.
17. Problems with female orgasm
Fiona Cowan
18. Sexual painful disorders
Nikki M.W. Lee and Leila Frodsham
19 Tocophobia
Leila Frodsham
20. Gender, sexuality and relationship diversity
Penny Goold
21. Neurodiversity and Sexual Dysfuntion
Kate Howells
22 Religion and Sexual Problems
Sandy Goldbeck-Wood
23 The Impact of Race, Racism and Social construct on Sexuality
Annabel Sowemimo and Sheila Radhakrishnan
24 Online Pornography: Problematic use and Sexual Function
Catherine White
25. Sex after Trauma: Breaking the Chains of Sexual Disconnection
Sally Sooden
26 Vaginal Dysmorphia
Clare Gribbin
27 Sex in the Later Years
Nancy Conroy and Sarah Byrne
28 The efficacy of Psychosexual Medicine
Philipa Brough
29 Services
Pippa Brough
30 Training in Psychosexual Medicine
Jasmin Khan Singh
Biography
Philippa A Brough is a Member of the Institute of Psychosexual medicine (IPM) and a Fellow of the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health (FSRH). She has worked as a Consultant and clinical director in SRH/integrated sexual health, a Faculty trainer, and an MFSRH examiner including OSCE convenor. She set up and led Psychosexual services in the Merseyside region for 20 years before stepping down to concentrate on IPM work. She is currently a psychosexual trainer, examiner and the Council representative of the IPM Training committee. She also co-wrote the psychosexual chapter in Obstetrics & Gynaecology: A Comprehensive Guide for MRCOG, Fourth Edition.
Jasmin Khan-Singh graduated from Southampton University in 1985. She is a Member of the IPM and was a Fellow of the FSRH. She has worked in Psychosexual Medicine, Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare and Community Paediatrics, in South Wales for 3 decades plus. She has had a special interest in medical education and was a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Educators, attributed mainly to her work as the Director of Training for the IPM (2008-2013) but also to the local, regional and national training and examiner roles that she held, in both the IPM and the FSRH. Having retired from clinical practice last year, she currently continues to contribute and work within the IPM as both a Seminar Leader and an Examiner.
Catherine White is a Member of the IPM. She worked as a GP in the Northwest for 30 years with an additional role as a Specialty Doctor in Genito-urinary Medicine, latterly Integrated Sexual Health (ISH). She was instrumental in setting up the psychosexual service in her clinic role being Psychosexual clinical lead from 2017, and was involved in teaching psychosexual skills to GPs and doctors in ISH training. She is a member of the IPM Council, having recently stepped down from her role as Programme Secretary, and continues as a Seminar Leader and Examiner.
