Lovemaps: Clinical Concepts of Sexual/Erotic Health and Pathology, Paraphilia, and Gender Transposition in Childhood, Adolescence, and Maturity (New Concepts in Sexuality) - Softcover

Money, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0879754567 ISBN 13: 9780879754563

Publisher: Prometheus, 1986

Synopsis

The word "lovemap" was first used by Dr. John Money in lectures at Johns Hopkins University in 1980 to symbolize "the neutral template expressed in every individual's sexuoerotic fantasies and practices." The word connotes our often subconscious pattern of erotic yearnings and desire. Each of us has a distinctive lovemap, as different and individual as a fingerprint.In this book, Dr. Money outlines healthy lovemap development as well as lovemap pathology - lovemaps gone awry. Such pathology falls into three categories: hypophilia (sexual dysfunction, such as impotence), hyperphilia (erotomania), and paraphilia (perversions). Paraphilia, another term coined by Money (from the Latin para - away from what is expected, and philia - love) can range from "those that are playful and harmless to those that are bizarre and deadly."Presenting case histories, Lovemaps describes the sexual practices of several patients and subsequent treatments of their paraphilias. Money pioneered the application of the hormone MPA, or Depo-Provera, to treat repeat sex criminals. He believes he has proved that science can prevent paraphilic sex offending, as is the case for other, physiological diseases.Lovemaps and its stirring accounts of lovemap pathology in case histories, (which are indexed under "paraphilia"), can be invaluable tools for those in the fields of sexology, child psychology, clinical psychology, criminology and, with its comprehensive glossary, the general reader - in short, anyone interested in human sexual development.

About this title

About the Author:

John Money, Ph.D. (1921 - 2006), was professor emeritus of medical psychology and pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University, and the author of many books including Sin, Science and the Sex Police and Lovemaps. A renowned sexologist who specialized in sexual identity studies and the biology of gender, Money coined the terms "gender identity" and "gender role."

About this edition

• Publisher: Prometheus
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0879754567
• ISBN 13: 9780879754563
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 331