Call it a remnant of our Victorian past, but sexual concerns lag behind other aspects of health, both in the training of physicians and therapists and in the way they impart this knowledge to clients. But as sexuality gains recognition as crucial to one's quality of life, evidence-based methods of understanding and discussing sex are imperative-and not only in treating pathology. Sexual Medicine in Clinical Practice provides framework, rationale, and strategies for both approaching sexual problems and addressing patients' questions about sexual health, behavior, and relationships. Analyzing sexuality along three dimensions-attachment, reproduction, and desire-this concise manual offers a biopsychosocial lifespan model readily translatable into clinical work. This "syndyastic" framework integrates attachment and relational theory to reinforce the bond between intimacy and connectedness, and models nonjudgmental approaches to disorders of sexual function, maturity, preference, and behavior. The authors' salutogenic rather than pathogenic focus lets clients become major players in their own healing, and the therapist or doctor serve as expert and guide. Among the topics covered: The communicative function of sexuality. The spectrum of sexual disorders. Principles of diagnostics in sexual medicine. Disease-centered versus client-centered aspects of sexual therapy. Therapeutic approaches for sexual traumatization. New challenges, including preventing child sexual abuse and online sex crime. Plus case studies, interdisciplinary references, and ethical issues. A timely, perspective- and practice-altering volume, Sexual Medicine in Clinical Practice is essential reading for family and primary care physicians, family and sex therapists, health psychologists, and psychiatrists.

Call it a remnant of our Victorian past, but sexual concerns lag behind other aspects of health, both in the training of physicians and therapists and in the way they impart this knowledge to clients. But as sexuality gains recognition as crucial to one's quality of life, evidence-based methods of understanding and discussing sex are imperative-and not only in treating pathology. Sexual Medicine in Clinical Practice provides framework, rationale, and strategies for both approaching sexual problems and addressing patients' questions about sexual health, behavior, and relationships. Analyzing sexuality along three dimensions-attachment, reproduction, and desire-this concise manual offers a biopsychosocial lifespan model readily translatable into clinical work. This "syndyastic" framework integrates attachment and relational theory to reinforce the bond between intimacy and connectedness, and models nonjudgmental approaches to disorders of sexual function, maturity, preference, and behavior. The authors' salutogenic rather than pathogenic focus lets clients become major players in their own healing, and the therapist or doctor serve as expert and guide. Among the topics covered: The communicative function of sexuality. The spectrum of sexual disorders. Principles of diagnostics in sexual medicine. Disease-centered versus client-centered aspects of sexual therapy. Therapeutic approaches for sexual traumatization. New challenges, including preventing child sexual abuse and online sex crime. Plus case studies, interdisciplinary references, and ethical issues. A timely, perspective- and practice-altering volume, Sexual Medicine in Clinical Practice is essential reading for family and primary care physicians, family and sex therapists, health psychologists, and psychiatrists.

This book provides extensive information on pedophilia (sexual interest in the prepubescent body age), hebephilia (sexual interest in the early-pubescent body age) and sexual offenses against children, i.e., the various forms of child sexual abuse, including the use of child sexual abuse images, along with the current state of knowledge concerning offender groups. The book makes it clear that pedophilia or hebephilia do not inevitably lead to offenses against children - that there are those who keep their desires in their fantasies and do not act them out on the behavioral level. The World Health Organization classifies pedophilia as a mental disorder. It can be safely assumed that many pedophile men in a given community live their lives, unrecognized and adamant about hiding their sexual drives from society and from themselves, and who are genuinely motivated not to act upon their sexual fantasies. The numbers of exactly this particular group of pedophilically inclined non-offenders can be increased by preventive therapeutic measures. For this purpose, two treatment programs have been developed at the Institute of Sexology and Sexual Medicine at the Charite-Universitatsmedizin Berlin (University Clinic) since the initiation of the Prevention Project Dunkelfeld in 2005 - First, the project involving adult participants (Berlin Dissexuality Therapy: BEDIT) and later, another for adolescents (BEDIT-A), who find themselves attracted to children. Both program manuals are completely integrated into this work, which reflects 15 years of assessment and treatment experience.

In diesem Buch wird die bisher umfangreichste empirische Verlaufsuntersuchung von Sexualstraftatern vorgelegt. Neu eingefuhrt wird der Begriff "Dissexualitat," der erstmalig die Kennzeichnung sozial dysfunktionalen sexuellen Verhaltens unabhangig von seiner juristischen Bewertung ermoglicht. Die Daten aus einer Lebenslangsschnittanalyse von 302 erstmals begutachteten Sexualdelinquenten erlauben fur alle Deliktgruppen (Inzest, Exhibitionismus, Vergewaltigung/ sexuelle Notigung, Padophilie), den biographischen Stellenwert der dissexuellen Verhaltensbereitschaften unterschiedlichen tatertypologischen Beschreibungen zuzuordnen."

Syndyastik a" der tiefe Wunsch nach Beziehung und ZugehArigkeit...
Werden in einer Paarbeziehung die menschlichen GrundbedA1/4rfnisse nach NAhe und Geborgenheit nicht erfA1/4llt, entstehen daraus hAufig sexuelle FunktionsstArungen, wie z.B. Unlust oder ErektionsstArungen.
Die hier erstmals vorgestellte Syndyastische Sexualtherapie rA1/4ckt nicht die gestArte Sexualfunktion in den Mittelpunkt, sondern die zu Grunde liegende frustrierte partnerschaftliche Beziehung.
Syndyastische Sexualtherapie ist
- schulenA1/4bergreifend
- die Fokussierung auf innere GrundbedA1/4rfnisse
- das Mittel zur Verbesserung der sexuellen Kommunikation
- frei von mechanistischen "Aoebungen" oder "Hausaufgaben"
- wirksam ohne langwierige Therapiesitzung
Anwendbar ist die Syndyastische Sexualtherapie bei sexuellen FunktionsstArungen des Mannes und der Frau, bei unerfA1/4lltem Kinderwunsch, SexualitAt im Alter, krankheits- und behandlungsbedingten SexualstArungen, sexuellen PrAferenz- und VerhaltensstArungen und GeschlechtsidentitAtsstArungen.
Dieser neue Therapieansatz geht weit A1/4ber die klassische Psychotherapie hinaus und ist geeignet fA1/4r alle A"rzte und Psychotherapeuten, die in ihren Praxen mit sexuellen FunktiosstArungen konfrontiert werden.
...und seine ErfA1/4llung macht wieder Lust!

Der Praxisleitfaden Sexualmedizin dient der schnellen Orientierung uber die wichtigsten sexualmedizinischen Storungsbilder und der erforderlichen diagnostischen und therapeutischen Vorgehensweise. Zahlreiche Indikationsgebiete, z.B. Storungen der geschlechtlichen Identitat oder auch Storungen des sexuellen Verhaltens, die im klinischen Alltag zu beachten sind, werden pragnant charakterisiert und erlauben Arzten/innen, Psychologen/innen sowie professionelle Helfern/innen im Gesundheitssystem, sich schnell zu orientieren, um adaquate Schritte einzuleiten.

Dabei geht das Buch auch auf neue Herausforderungen, die sich durch Internet und neue Medien ergeben und keineswegs nur das Patientenwissen beeinflussen, sondern sexuelles Selbstbild, Geschlechtsrollendefinition und letztlich auch die sexuelle Praferenz bzw. das Sexualverhalten der heranwachsenden Generationen beeinflussen konnten. Schliesslich aber gibt es neue Erkenntnisse zur Pravention von sexuellen Verhaltensstorungen, uber die dieser Praxisleitfaden genauso informiert, um auch diesbezuglich klinisch relevantes Wissen fur eine moglichst grosse Fachoffentlichkeit verfugbar zu machen."