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An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society Drawing on original research from medical texts, psychiatric case histories, pioneering statistical surveys, first-person accounts, legal cases, sensationalist journalism, and legislative debates, Jennifer Terry has written a nuanced and textured history of how the century-old obsession with homosexuality is deeply tied to changing American anxieties about [...] Regression: A Universal Experience A scientific work made accessible for lay readers–without sacrificing its technical and scholarly underpinnings–this book presents regression as a universal and necessary process. This book combines concepts drawn from learning theory, neuroscience, neuropsychology, child development, and trauma revival in an unprecedented manner, and aims to stimulate interest in–and exploration of–regression. List Price: $ [...] The Young Adolescent: Clinical Studies Through his extensive clnical experience with adolescents Dr. Blos has come to consider the early years of adolescence the most crucial ones because they lay the foundation for later adolescent development. Fixations in the early phases of adolescence give rise to deviant developments which the two case studies of this volume [...] The Thin Woman: Feminism, Post-structuralism and the Social Psychology of Anorexia Nervosa (Women and Psychology) Why are so many women and girls distressed about their bodies, about food and about being a woman? The Thin Woman offers new feminist and post-structuralist insights into the problems of anorexia nervosa. Helen Malson draws [...] Sexual Health and the Menopause Published on behalf of the British Menopause Society, this is a practical and sensitive collection of articles on common sexual health issues which concern menopausal women and their partners. Many older women have an increased sexual response owing to a reduced fear of pregnancy, the end of menstrual distress, and no [...] Normative Psychoanalysis: How the Oedipal Dogma Shapes Consumer Culture NORMATIVE PSYCHOANALYSIS is both a critique of Sigmund Freud’s cultural concept of psychoanalysis, and Freud’s theory of the Oedipus Complex. Many young parents believe that psychoanalysis had contributed to the liberation of the child; they think it to be a form of permissiveness, or a variant of [...] Infant Losses; Adult Searches: A Neural and Developmental Perspective on Psychopathology and Sexual Offending This is an innovative view of the development of psychopathology and sexual offending. In a synthesis of neuroscience, developmental, and social psychology with forensic and criminal literature, it offers a fresh perspective as to the reasons that precipitate some individuals into violent [...] The Trauma of Sexual Assault: Treatment, Prevention and Practice (Wiley Series in Clinical Psychology) Rape and sexual assault are common crimes in our societies, but work on its psychosocial impact and critiques of procedures and interventions are hard to find. The Trauma of Sexual Assault fills these gaps. It focuses on adult victims and opens up [...] Impotence in Diabetes (Advances in Diabetes) Provides an understanding and coverage of the pathophysiology and epidemiology of diabetic impotence as well as modern management. Provides information on the set up of an impotence clinic and the role of the general practitioner. List Price: $ 149.95 Price: Transgenderism and Intersexuality in Childhood and Adolescence: Making Choices (Developmental [...] 101 Defenses: How the Mind Shields Itself Defenses are mental operations that restore or maintain psychic equilibrium when people feel that they cannot manage emotions that stem from conflict; they remove components of unpleasant emotions from conscious awareness. For example, using sex, food, or hostility to relieve tension–that’s a defense–catalogued here as entry number 68: Impulsivity. [...] Joyce & Jung: The “Four Stages of Eroticism” in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce and Jung offers a provocatively original chapter-by-chapter analysis of Stephen Dedalus’ psychosexual growth in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The author frames this within the Jungian soul-portrait gallery known as the “four stages [...] Principles of Developmental Sexology Principles of Developmental Sexology is a summation of Money’s life’s work, much of it devoted to pediatric sexology, both normal and abnormal. This book marks the foundation of a new branch of scholarship and science, the developmental sexology of childhood and adolescence, from prenatal life onward. Uniquely thorough and comprehensive in its [...] Caring for Sexuality in Health and Illness (Churchill Livingstone) Kingston Univ., London, UK. Shows how caring for sexuality rests on two features: the capacity to reflect on the practitioner-patient relationship, and an understanding of each person’s unique developments. For nurses. Softcover. List Price: $ 27.95 Price: Charlotte Bronte: A Psychosexual Study of Her Novels Human Sexual Inadequacy The innovative program described in this book revolutionizes the the treatment of sexual dysfunction. During eleven years of daily clinical work, more than five hundred couples have been treated at Masters and Johnson’s Reproductive Biology Research Foundation in St. Louis. Here the relationship itself is the patient. The authors stress that there is [...] The Pornographer’s Grief: And Other Tales of Human Sexuality A Harvard psychiatrist and expert on human sexuality shares some of his most fascinating cases, covering sexual behavior, drugs, trauma, and religious repression. List Price: $ 20.00 Price: Charlotte Bronte: A Psychosexual Study of Her Novels Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience ISBN13: 9780822343189 What happens when a baby is born with “ambiguous” genitalia or a combination of “male” and “female” body parts? Clinicians and parents in [...] Freud, Biologist of the Mind: Beyond the Psychoanalytic Legend In this monumental intellectual biography, Frank Sulloway demonstrates that Freud always remained, despite his denials, a biologist of the mind; and, indeed, that his most creative inspirations derived significantly from biology. Sulloway analyzes the political aspects of the complex myth of Freud as psychoanalytic hero [...] |
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