Main description:

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.

Contents:

I-An Overview of Sex Therapy.- 1 Direct Treatment of Sexual Dysfunction.- 2 Overcoming Sexual Inadequacy.- 3 The Use of Vicarious Learning in the Treatment of Sexual Concerns.- 4 The Effectiveness of Sex Therapy: A Review of the Literature.- II-The A ssessment of Sexual Function and Dysfunction.- 5 Clinical Assessment in the Treatment of Sexual Dysfunctions.- 6 Sexual Assessment and History Interview.- 7 The Sexual Interaction Inventory: A New Instrument for Assessment of Sexual Dysfunction.- 8 Uses of Psychophysiology in the Assessment and Treatment of Sexual Dysfunction.- 9 Advances in the Psychophysiological Evaluation of Male Erectile Impotence.- III-Female Orgasmic Dysfunction.- A-Determinants of Female Orgasm.- 10 Determinants of Female Orgasm.- 11 Factors in Marital Orgasm.- 12 Types of Female Orgasm.- B-Treatment of Female Orgasmic Dysfunction.- 13 The Role of Masturbation in the Treatment of Orgasmic Dysfunction.- 14 Desensitization Procedures in Dealing with Female Sexual Dysfunction.- 15 Secondary Orgasmic Dysfunction. I. A nalysis and Strategies for Treatment.- 16 Orgasm during Intercourse: A Treatment Strategy for Women.- 17 Diagnosis and Treatment Procedures of Pubococcygeal Deficiencies in Women.- IV-Dyspareunia and Vaginismus.- 18 Diagnosis and Treatment of Coital Discomfort.- 19 Hypnodesensitization Therapy of Vaginismus: In Vitro and in Vivo Methods.- V-Male Orgasmic Dysfunction.- 20 Use of Written Material in Learning Self-Control of Premature Ejaculation.- 21 Group Treatment of Premature Ejaculation.- 22 Ejaculatory Incompetence Treated by Deconditioning Anxiety.- 23 A Case of Ejaculatory Incompetence Treated with a Mechanical Aid.- VI-Nale Erectile Dysfunction.- 24 Impotence as a Practical Problem.- 25 Treatments of Male Potency Disorders: The Present Status.- 26 Systematic Desensitization of Erectile Impotence: A Controlled Study.- 27 Treatment of Erectile Failure and Ejaculatory Incompetence of Homosexual Etiology.- VII-Sexual Dysfunction in Special Populations.- 28 Helping Elderly Couples Become Sexually Liberated: Psychosocial Issues.- 29 Sexual Behavior in Pregnancy.- 30 Sexual Adjustment of the Postcoronary Male.- 31 Aspects of Sexual Response in Adults with Spinal-Cord Injury: A Review of the Literature.- 32 Sexual Functioning in Patients with Chronic Renal Failure.- 33 Impotence in Diabetes: The Neurologic Factor.- 34 Impotence in Diabetics.- 35 Issues in the Treatment of Sexually Dysfunctioning Couples of Afro-American Descent.- VIII-Group Procedures.- 36 A Program for Enhancing the Sexual Relationship of Normal Couples.- 37 A Behavioral Group Treatment Program for Sexually Dysfunctional Couples.- 38 Group Therapy for Nonorgasmic Women: Two Age Levels.- IX-Comments on Sex Therapy and Other Therapeutic Approaches to Sexual Dysfunction.- 39 Individual Sex Therapy.- 40 The Psychiatrists versus Masters and Johnson.- 41 The Question of Surrogates in Sex Therapy.- X-Professional Issues.- 42 Training Dual Sex Teams for Rapid Treatment of Sexual Dysfunction: A Pilot Program.- 43 The Professionalization of Sex Therapy: Issues and Problems.