Lehrbuch Sexualtherapie

Understanding and Treating Sexual Dysfunction

This book provides an overview of the most important sexual therapeutic concepts and critically evaluates their effectiveness. The therapeutic approaches are clearly described and compared with one another. It offers detailed recommendations for conducting sexual therapy based on numerous examples and presents specific therapeutic interventions.

Lack of desire, vaginismus, premature ejaculation, erectile dysfunction, and orgasm disorders are among the most common sexual problems. But which form of therapy is actually tested and suitable for which of these disorders? The authors provide an overview and assessment of the most well-known sexual therapeutic concepts in the German-speaking world: Masters and Johnson, Helen S. Kaplan, the Hamburg Model, syndiastical sexual therapy, David Schnarch's Crucible approach, systemic sexual therapy, and Sexocorporel. Based on these analyses, they propose a sexual therapeutic concept with couple and individual exercises and describe hypnotherapeutic intervention options.

This book is aimed at:

• Sexual therapists, medical and psychological psychotherapists
• General practitioners, urologists, gynecologists
• Psychologists and social workers.