New Sex Therapy: Active Treatment of Sexual Dysfunctions - Tapa dura

ars, the work of Kinsey, Masters and Johnson, and other investigators has led to tremendous advances in our understanding of human sexuality. This increased understanding is currently being translated into innovative new approaches to the treatment of sexually dysfunctional men and women, with often dramatic results in relieving the distressing sexual symptoms of countless individuals who were formerly beyond help, even with years of costly psychotherapy.

Now a noted psychiatrist and specialist in the new sex therapy describes for the first time the new treatment of the sexual dysfunctions, providing a clear picture of the entire process of treatment, as well as conceptualizing the theory underlying it. The author's method is unique in that it represents an integration of psychoanalytic and sex therapy techniques. It treats the couple on an outpatient basis and is applicable to office practice, as well; it focuses on relief of the sexual problem and attaining improved sexual functioning;

Helen Singer Kaplan, M.D., Ph.D., is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and is in charge of Student Teaching of Psychiatry at Cornell University College of Medicine. She also serves as Head of the Sex Therapy and Education Program at the Payne Whitney Clinic of New York Hospital, where she has developed and directs the clinic for brief treatment of sexual disorders( She also conducts a private practice in psychoanalysts and in sex therapy.

Dr. Kaplan is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, author of more than thirty professional publications, and co-editor (with Clifford J. Sager, M.D.) of the authoritative text, Progress in Group and Family Therapy. In addition to her professional duties, Dr. Kaplan is the mother of three children: J