The Sexually Disturbed: Treating Psychosexual Disorders / Edition 1

by Averil M. Doyle

Overview

This volume describes the treatment of uniquely complex and profound sexual problems that the therapeutic community has been largely unsuccessful in treating. The reader is drawn to understand and even identify with the people experiencing sexual disturbance. This process of identification helps to mitigate the biases that we use to dehumanize the sexually disturbed.

This work is developed around a case study format, with chapters on specific psychosexual disturbances. All of these cases experienced early childhood sexual trauma or mislearning that interrupted the course of normal sexual development. Such victims then frequently repeat the learned behavior in later life, acting out the role of perpetrator. In addition to presenting the treatment process as it is formulated in the mind of the therapist, the author offers a blueprint for therapy that makes specific treatment possible for clients with similar disorders. Therapists are also guided in developing an effective clinical presence, covering such matters as initial contact, boundary setting, self awareness, dress, voice tone, and overall demeanor. Strategies for avoiding becoming enmeshed in psychological defenses are presented in detail.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275942946
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	07/22/1992
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.70(d)
Lexile:	1000L (what's this?)

About the Author

AVERIL MARIE DOYLE is a psychotherapist with more than twenty years of experience as a clinician specializing in human sexuality and family dynamics. She is a national supervisor for the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists and a clinical supervisor for the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy. Dr. Doyle has taught graduate courses in human sexuality and sex therapy for medical students and counselors. She serves as a consultant of health care professionals as well as delivering direct service in psychotherapy. She has contributed to professional jourbanals and is co-author of A Guide to Sexual Counseling: A Workbook Approach (1977).

Table of Contents

Influences on the Underlying Assumptions of this Work
Introduction to the Sexually Disturbed
Patterns from the Past: How Formative Experiences Take on Psychosexual Manifestations in Later Life
Therapy in Process
Annie: Female Sexual Exhibitionism
Ben: Transsexualism
Loretta: Incestuous Pedophilia
Frank: Ego Dystonic Homosexuality
Julie: Gender Identity Disorders of Adolescence or Adulthood
William and Marie: Sibling Incest Sexual Masochism, and Sexual Sadism
Roy: Homosexual Pedophilia
Theory and Method
Blueprint for Therapy
Clinical Presence
Client Humanity
Curative Powers in Therapy
Regression: Access to the Pockets of the Mind
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Index