Handbook of Sex Therapy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. An Overview of Sex Therapy

   1. Direct Treatment of Sexual Dysfunction

      • Joseph LoPiccolo

      Pages 1-17

   2. Overcoming Sexual Inadequacy

      • Arnold A. Lazarus

      Pages 19-34

   3. The Use of Vicarious Learning in the Treatment of Sexual Concerns

      • Jack S. Annon, Craig H. Robinson

      Pages 35-56

   4. The Effectiveness of Sex Therapy: A Review of the Literature

      • Douglas R. Hogan

      Pages 57-84

3. The Assessment of Sexual Function and Dysfunction

   1. Clinical Assessment in the Treatment of Sexual Dysfunctions

      • W. Charles Lobitz, Gretchen K. Lobitz

      Pages 85-102

   2. Sexual Assessment and History Interview

      • Leslie LoPiccolo, Julia R. Heiman

      Pages 103-112

   3. The Sexual Interaction Inventory: A New Instrument for Assessment of Sexual Dysfunction

      • Joseph LoPiccolo, Jeffrey C. Steger

      Pages 113-122

   4. Uses of Psychophysiology in the Assessment and Treatment of Sexual Dysfunction

      • Julia R. Heiman

      Pages 123-135

   5. Advances in the Psychophysiological Evaluation of Male Erectile Impotence

      • Ismet Karacan

      Pages 137-145

4. Female Orgasmic Dysfunction

   1. Determinants of Female Orgasm

      1. Determinants of Female Orgasm

         • Patricia Morokoff

         Pages 147-165

      2. Factors in Marital Orgasm

         • Paul H. Gebhard

         Pages 167-174

      3. Types of Female Orgasm

         • Josephine Singer, Irving Singer

         Pages 175-186

   2. Treatment of Female Orgasmic Dysfunction

      1. The Role of Masturbation in the Treatment of Orgasmic Dysfunction

         • Joseph LoPiccolo, W. Charles Lobitz

         Pages 187-194

      2. Desensitization Procedures in Dealing with Female Sexual Dysfunction

         • June R. Husted

         Pages 195-208

      3. Secondary Orgasmic Dysfunction I. Analysis and Strategies for Treatment

         • Kevin B. McGovern, Rita Stewart McMullen, Joseph LoPiccolo

         Pages 209-218

      4. Orgasm during Intercourse: A Treatment Strategy for Women

         • Antonette M. Zeiss, Gerald M. Rosen, Robert A. Zeiss

         Pages 219-225

      5. Diagnosis and Treatment Procedures of Pubococcygeal Deficiencies in Women

         • Georgia Kline-Graber, Benjamin Graber

         Pages 227-239

5. Dyspareunia and Vaginismus

   1. Diagnosis and Treatment of Coital Discomfort

      • A. R. Abarbanel

      Pages 241-259

   2. Hypnodesensitization Therapy of Vaginismus: In Vitro and in Vivo Methods

      • K. Fuchs, Z. Hoch, E. Paldi, H. Abramovici, J. M. Brandes, I. Timor-Tritsch et al.

      Pages 261-270

When is it timely to publish a synthesis of previously published and original materials from a specific discipline? I believe it to be timely when one has a sufficient amount of high-quality material covering the critical areas of that topic, when the previously published material is scattered over a wide range of journals and books, and when there is no single book that synthesizes the discipline. The treatment of sexual dysfunction emerged to the front lines of health delivery only during the past decade with the pioneering work of William Masters and Virginia Johnson. In spite of the rash of sex clinics and sex therapists that followed, preciously little solid research has been conducted on the various strategies of therapy, the means of assessing complex interpersonal sexual relation­ ships, and the manner by which clinical change is objectively assessed. No one reader can keep pace with the multitude of jounials that publish key material by sophisticated investigators. And no one investigator can cover these salient areas alone with his or her original work in a single volume. The critical papers have now been written. Ten were written specifically for this volume and thirty-three have previously appeared. This volume laces them together into a coherent pattern. Thus, the time for a synthesis in sexual dysfunction.

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• State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA

  Joseph LoPiccolo, Leslie LoPiccolo

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