Sexuality: A Biopsychosocial Approach
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- The aims of this book -- The biopsychosocial approach -- 'Clients', 'patients' and case examples -- 1 Approaches I: biology and sociobiology -- Biological processes in sexuality -- Medical aspects of sex and sexuality - not just amedical matter -- Sociobiology and evolutionary psychology -- Conclusion -- 2 Approaches II: anthropology and sociology -- Anthropology -- Sociology -- 3 Approaches III: psychological approaches to sexuality -- Psychoanalysis -- Freudian perspectives -- Jung and Jungians -- French analysts -- English developments -- American analysts -- Psychoanalysis and biology: recent developments -- Conclusion: psychoanalysis, lovemaps and the erotic imagination -- 4 Politics -- Introduction: why politics? -- Freudiomarxists -- Feminism -- Feminism, psychotherapy and psychoanalysis -- Feminism, psychoanalysis and biology -- Structuralism and poststructuralism -- Psychoanalysis and postructuralism -- Queer theory -- Sexual politics and therapeutic practice -- 5 Male and female heterosexuality -- The female sexual life cycle -- The male sexual lifecycle -- 6 Lesbians and gay men -- Sexuality and identity -- Why are some people homosexual? -- General principles of therapy with gay men and lesbians -- Gay men -- Lesbians -- 7 Transgressive and coercive sex -- Transgressive sex and perversion -- Causes of transgressive sex: psychoanalytic views -- Causes of transgressive sex: non-analytic perspectives -- Transgressive sexual acts and psychiatric disorders -- Women and transgressive sex -- Specific forms of transgressive sex -- Coercive sex -- Treating sexual aggression -- Child sexual abuse -- Perversion, transgression and normality -- 8 Transgendered people: the plasticity of gender -- Introduction -- Definitions.