Kurt K. Loewit – författare

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.

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.

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.

Werden in einer Paarbeziehung die menschlichen Grundbedürfnisse nach Nähe und Geborgenheit nicht erfüllt, entstehen daraus häufig sexuelle Funktionsstörungen wie z.B. Unlust oder Erektionsstörungen.Die hier erstmals vorgestellte Syndyastische Sexualtherapie rückt nicht die gestörte Sexualfunktion in den Mittelpunkt, sondern die zu Grunde liegende frustrierte partnerschaftliche Beziehung.Dieser neue Therapieansatz geht weit über die klassische Psychotherapie hinaus und ist geeignet für alle Ärzte und Psychotherapeuten, die in ihren Praxen mit sexuellen Funktiosstörungen konfrontiert werden.

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.