The Guidebook of Sexual Medicine - Softcover

Waguih William IsHak M.D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0979741009 ISBN 13: 9780979741005

Publisher: A&W Publishing, 2008

Synopsis

This book integrates biological and psychological factors into a biopsychosocial approach to the evaluation and treatment of sexual dysfunction, with significant emphasis on the couple. The Biopsychosocial model ensures a comprehensive assessment of multiple factors (psychosocial, medical, and the effect of substances) that can affect sexual functioning, so that the individual and/or the couple can benefit from different types of interventions, whether they are biological, psychosocial, or both. The current model of the sexual response cycle is discussed in chapter 1. A discussion of the Biopsychosocial evaluation and Biopsychosocial treatments of sexual disorders is covered in chapter 2. The following two chapters (3 and 4) describe substance-induced sexual dysfunction and sexual disorders caused by medical conditions. Chapters 5 through 8 deal with disorders of desire, arousal, orgasm, and pain. Chapter 9 focuses on alternative medicine interventions in sexual performance enhancement, while chapter 10 is dedicated to women's sexual health. This volume ends with an appendix on the results of sex surveys and another on the available online screening tests for sexual disorders in women and men. Paraphilias and gender identity disorders are related topics that are beyond the scope of this manual and are not covered here.

About this title

From the Publisher

"The Guidebook of Sexual Medicine is a practical manual for clinicians of all sorts of professional backgrounds who are charged with evaluation and treatment of sexual disorders. This volume underscores the value of an in-depth exploration of biological and psychosocial factors underlying sexual dysfunction, and widens the scope of interventions by highlighting the importance of integrating biological and psychosocial treatments. It also calls attention to 'the couple' as a core unit in restoration of sexual health and quality of life enhancement." FROM THE FOREWORD BY LOUIS IGNARRO, PH.D., NOBEL LAUREATE

About the Author

Waguih William IsHak, MD, FAPA is Vice Chairman for Education and Research and Consultant Psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, and Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He served as Program Director of the Cedars-Sinai Psychiatry Residency Training Program and Associate Director of the Psychiatry Residency Training Program in the Department of Psychiatry at New York University (NYU) School of Medicine and Bellevue Hospital Center in New York City. He trained in Sexual Disorders at the NYU Program of Human Sexuality under the leadership of Virginia Sadock, M.D. and received his medical education and his preliminary psychiatric training at Cairo University School of Medicine, Dar El-Mokattum Milieu Therapy Hospital, and Ministry of Health in Cairo, Egypt. After a residency and chief residency in psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine, he completed an academic psychiatry fellowship and an administrative psychiatry fellowship at NYU. Dr. IsHak is the co-editor of two books: Outcome Measurement in Psychiatry: A Critical Review (APPI, 2002) and On Call Psychiatry (W.B. Saunders, 2001).

Edition details

• Publisher: A&W Publishing
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0979741009
• ISBN 13: 9780979741005
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240