Klaus M. Beier – författare

This book provides extensive information on pedophilia (sexual interest in the prepubescent body age), hebephilia (sexual interest in the early-pubescent body age) and sexual offenses against children, i.e., the various forms of child sexual abuse, including the use of child sexual abuse images, along with the current state of knowledge concerning offender groups. The book makes it clear that pedophilia or hebephilia do not inevitably lead to offenses against children – that there are those who keep their desires in their fantasies and do not act them out on the behavioral level. The World Health Organization classifies pedophilia as a mental disorder. It can be safely assumed that many pedophile men in a given community live their lives, unrecognized and adamant about hiding their sexual drives from society and from themselves, and who are genuinely motivated not to act upon their sexual fantasies. The numbers of exactly this particular group of pedophilically inclined non-offenders can be increased by preventive therapeutic measures. For this purpose, two treatment programs have been developed at the Institute of Sexology and Sexual Medicine at the Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin (University Clinic) since the initiation of the Prevention Project Dunkelfeld in 2005 – First, the project involving adult participants (Berlin Dissexuality Therapy: BEDIT) and later, another for adolescents (BEDIT-A), who find themselves attracted to children. Both program manuals are completely integrated into this work, which reflects 15 years of assessment and treatment experience.

Sexual Medicine in Clinical Practice provides framework, rationale, and strategies for both approaching sexual problems and addressing patients’ questions about sexual health, behavior, and relationships.

Call it a remnant of our Victorian past, but sexual concerns lag behind other aspects of health, both in the training of physicians and therapists and in the way they impart this knowledge to clients. But as sexuality gains recognition as crucial to one’s quality of life, evidence-based methods of understanding and discussing sex are imperative—and not only in treating pathology. Sexual Medicine in Clinical Practice provides framework, rationale, and strategies for both approaching sexual problems and addressing patients’ questions about sexual health, behavior, and relationships. Analyzing sexuality along three dimensions—attachment, reproduction, and desire—this concise manual offers a biopsychosocial lifespan model readily translatable into clinical work. This “syndyastic” framework integrates attachment and relational theory to reinforce the bond between intimacy and connectedness, and models nonjudgmental approaches to disorders of sexual function, maturity, preference, and behavior. The authors’ salutogenic rather than pathogenic focus lets clients become major players in their own healing, and the therapist or doctor serve as expert and guide. Among the topics covered: The communicative function of sexuality. The spectrum of sexual disorders. Principles of diagnostics in sexual medicine. Disease-centered versus client-centered aspects of sexual therapy. Therapeutic approaches for sexual traumatization. New challenges, including preventing child sexual abuse and online sex crime. Plus case studies, interdisciplinary references, and ethical issues. A timely, perspective- and practice-altering volume, Sexual Medicine in Clinical Practice is essential reading for family and primary care physicians, family and sex therapists, health psychologists, and psychiatrists.

This book provides extensive information on pedophilia (sexual interest in the prepubescent body age), hebephilia (sexual interest in the early-pubescent body age) and sexual offenses against children, i.e., the various forms of child sexual abuse, including the use of child sexual abuse images, along with the current state of knowledge concerning offender groups. The book makes it clear that pedophilia or hebephilia do not inevitably lead to offenses against children – that there are those who keep their desires in their fantasies and do not act them out on the behavioral level. The World Health Organization classifies pedophilia as a mental disorder. It can be safely assumed that many pedophile men in a given community live their lives, unrecognized and adamant about hiding their sexual drives from society and from themselves, and who are genuinely motivated not to act upon their sexual fantasies. The numbers of exactly this particular group of pedophilically inclined non-offenders can be increased by preventive therapeutic measures. For this purpose, two treatment programs have been developed at the Institute of Sexology and Sexual Medicine at the Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin (University Clinic) since the initiation of the Prevention Project Dunkelfeld in 2005 – First, the project involving adult participants (Berlin Dissexuality Therapy: BEDIT) and later, another for adolescents (BEDIT-A), who find themselves attracted to children. Both program manuals are completely integrated into this work, which reflects 15 years of assessment and treatment experience.

Der Praxisleitfaden Sexualmedizin dient der schnellen Orientierung über die wichtigsten sexualmedizinischen Störungsbilder und der erforderlichen diagnostischen und therapeutischen Vorgehensweise. Ausgehend von den Grundlagen sexueller Gesundheit werden alle Indikationsgebiete, die im klinischen Alltag eine Rolle spielen, einschließlich der Störungen der sexuellen Entwicklung und der geschlechtlichen Identität, prägnant charakterisiert, was Ärzten/Ärztinnen, Psychologen/Psychologinnen sowie professionellen Helfern im Gesundheitssystem erlaubt, sich schnell zu orientieren, um adäquate Schritte einzuleiten.Dabei berücksichtigt das Buch auch neue Herausforderungen, die sich durch Internet und neue Medien ergeben und keineswegs nur das „Patientenwissen“ beeinflussen, sondern Auswirkungen auf das sexuelle Selbstbild, Geschlechtsrollendefinition und möglicherweise sogar auf die sexuellen Präferenzen sowie das Sexualverhalten der nachwachsenden Generation haben könnten. Schließlich aber gibt es neue Erkenntnisse zur Prävention von sexuellen Verhaltensstörungen, über die dieser Praxisleitfaden genauso informiert, um auch diesbezüglich klinisch relevantes Wissen für eine möglichst große Fachöffentlichkeit verfügbar zu machen.

In diesem Buch wird die bisher umfangreichste empirische Verlaufsuntersuchung von Sexualstraftatern vorgelegt. Neu eingefuhrt wird der Begriff Dissexualitat, der erstmalig die Kennzeichnung sozial dysfunktionalen sexuellen Verhaltens unabhangig von seiner juristischen Bewertung ermoglicht. Die Daten aus einer Lebenslangsschnittanalyse von 302 erstmals begutachteten Sexualdelinquenten erlauben fur alle Deliktgruppen (Inzest, Exhibitionismus, Vergewaltigung/ sexuelle Notigung, Padophilie), den biographischen Stellenwert der dissexuellen Verhaltensbereitschaften unterschiedlichen tatertypologischen Beschreibungen zuzuordnen.

„Lieben Sie Kinder mehr als Ihnen lieb ist?“ Mit diesem Slogan bietet das Präventionsprojekt Dunkelfeld seit 2005 Menschen, die sich sexuell zu Kindern hingezogen fühlen, diagnostische und therapeutische Unterstützung, um sexuellen Kindesmissbrauch zu verhindern.    Das vorliegende Buch informiert ausführlich über Pädophilie (d.h. die sexuelle Ansprechbarkeit für das kindliche Körperschema), Hebephilie (d.h. die sexuelle Ansprechbarkeit für das frühpubertäre Körperschema) und über die Prävention sexueller Traumatisierungen von Kindern und Jugendlichen.