Sexuality: A Biopsychosocial Approach

by Chess Denman

Overview

Of interest to psychotherapists and counsellors of all kinds, this text describes key issues and controversies in human sexuality as they present in therapy practice. The author uses the biopsychosocial approach to human behaviour to analyze sexual behaviour, object choice, transgendered experience, sexual problems, transgressive sex and sex therapy. Issues of sexuality in the consulting room, including transference and countertransference, are discussed and, throughout, therapeutic approaches to sexual problems are presented. The human capacity for inventive imagining is presented as an important force for beneficial change and, in relation to sexuality, discussed in terms of the 'erotic imagination'.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333786482
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/17/2003
Edition description:	2003
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.78(d)

About the Author

DR CHESS DENMAN is Consultant Psychotherapist and Head of Psychotherapy at Addenbrookes Hospital, and Associate Clinical Lecturer, University of Cambridge and Associate Lecturer, Unviersity of East Anglia.
DR CHESS DENMAN is Consultant Psychotherapist and Head of Psychotherapy at Addenbrookes Hospital, and Associate Clinical Lecturer, University of Cambridge and Associate Lecturer, Unviersity of East Anglia.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Approaches I Biology and Sociobiology
Approaches II Anthropology, Sociology, Feminism
Approaches III Psychological Approaches
Male and Female Heterosexuality
Lesbians and Gay Men
Transgressive and Coercive Sex
Transgendered People: The Plasticity of Gender
Sexology and Sex Therapy
Sex in the Consulting Room
Conclusion.