Psychological Perspectives on Sexual Problems

Jane M. Ussher is Professor of Women's Health Psychology at the Translational Health Research Institute, Western Sydney University, Australia. A critical health psychologist with four decades of experience, her research centres on sexual and reproductive health and embodied subjectivity. She is the author of more than 350 papers and chapters and 15 books, editor of the journal Women's Reproductive Health, and editor of the Routledge Women and Psychology book series.Christine D. Baker, (d.2017) M.Phil, Institute of Psychiatry London, was a clinical psychologist in London later in Jersey, Channel Islands. Her interests were adult mental health and particularly the sexual problems of adults focussing on women who had been sexually abused as children. Christine was the sole author of Female Survivors of Sexual Abuse (2002) based on her research over a number of years. She was a member of the Clinical Division of the British Psychological Society and the British Association of Behavioural Psychotherapies.

• Introduction: Sexuality: Whose Problem? Part I – Theory: Deconstructing Sexology, Reconstructing Sexuality 1. The Construction of Female Sexual Problems: Regulating Sex, Regulating Woman Jane M. Ussher 2. The Seeds of Masculine Sexuality Stephen Frosh 3. Public Values and Private Beliefs: Why Do Women Refer Themselves for Sex Therapy? Paula Nicolson Part II – Practice: Widening Horizons 4. Sexual Problems in Women with Eating Disorders Padmal de Silva 5. A Cognitive-Behavioural Model for the Formulation and Treatment of Sexual Dysfunction Christine D. Baker 6. Sexuality, Sexual Problems, and People with Learning Difficulties Jan Burns 7. Sexuality and Disability Chris Williams 8. Psychological Perspectives on Working with Sex Offenders Derek Perkins 9. Sex and the Injecting Drug User Geraldine Mulleady 10. Sex, Love, and Relationships: Issues and Problems for Gay Men in the AIDS Era Heather George. Name Index. Subject Index.