Psychoendocrinology of Human Sexual Behavior

by Harold Persky

Overview

This up-to-date and important new work describes the relationship between psychological and hormonal factors found in human sexual behavior across the lifespan. The author's discussion of human sexual behavior is organized according to developmental stage, starting with the fetus and concluding with senescence. Persky proposes that human sexual behavior is determined by a variety of factors, e.g. social, psychological, and endocrine, and ascertains the relative contribution of each of these factors to a range of sexual behaviors, attitudes, and feelings. Furthermore, he provides documentation that these determinants are interrelated in reciprocal fashion. In addition, by organizing his material within the Life Development model, Persky is able to present normal and abnormal psychoendocrine relationships which lead to sexual disorders.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275925260
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/09/1987
Series:	Sexual Medicine , #6
Pages:	282
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d)
Lexile:	1400L (what's this?)

About the Author

HAROLD PERSKY is presently Emeritus Professor, Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, where he has also served as Director of the Psychoendocrinology Laboratory.

Table of Contents

Preface
List of Figures
List of Tables
Part I: Introduction
Hormones: What They Are and How They Work
Sexual Behavior: Its Measurement, Theory, and Pathology
Psychoendocrinology of Sexual Behavior: Background
Part II: Psychoendocrine Relationships in Human Sexual Behavior
The Beginnings: Conception and the Fetal Stage
Childhood, Puberty, Adolescence
Adulthood: The Male
Adulthood: The Female
The Dyad
Aging
Part III: Integration and Conclusions
Sexual Disorders
Role of the Central Nervous System in Psychoendocrine Relations
Social Factors in Human Psychosexual Relationships
Conclusion
References
Index
About the Author