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"This book has become well established as the leading international reference on sexual deviation. The third edition builds on the outstanding success of its predecessors, and offers readable, and the most up-to-date accounts of findings in the clinical, experimental, and academic aspects of all fields dealing with sexual deviation. Throughout the book there is emphasis on clinical treatments, supported by a summary of the latest experimental findings on the biology of sexual behaviour Distinguished practitioners and academic experts discuss the most recent advances in their fields from a psychiatric, legal, psychotherapeutic, and behaviour therapy point of view, particularly in relation to sex offenders. They also cover significant advances in the psychotherapeutic treatment of gender disorders and homosexuality. There is also a new section on child sexual abuse and the resulting effects on adults. Now available in paperback at a low price, the book will remain required reading for all professionals dealing with sexual deviationpsychiatrists, psychoanalysts, clinical psychologists, counsellors, forensic psychiatrists, lawyers, magistrates, probation officers, and criminologists. From reviews of the second edition: ""Psychoanalysts will doubtless enthuse over this book"" ""The psychoanalysts have provided one of the few beacons in the otherwise unlit domain of sexual perversions"" New England Journal of Medicine Nov. 1979 ""All of the chapters were well written"" American Journal of Psychiatry Jan. 1980 ""Forensic aspects are well covered with an up-to-date account of the British and American Law and a detailed description of the treatment of sex offenders using dynamic psychotherapy. It is a valuable reference book"" |s British Journal of Sexual Medicine Vol.7 Oct. 1980, ""It is clear that a book which is so varied, so wide in its coverage and which arouses in parts strong agreement and in other parts strong diagreement, merits serious and prolonged study and attention"" |s International Journal of Psychoanalysis 1981"

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Author:   the late Ismond Rosen (Formerly Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, Formerly Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, Parkside Clinic, London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Edition:   3rd Revised edition
Volume:   No.6
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.765kg
ISBN:  

9780192629241

ISBN 10:   0192629247
Pages:   508
Publication Date:   26 March 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order  
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Table of Contents

List of contributors 1: A general psychiatric approach to sexual deviation 2: The general psychoanalytical theory of perversion 3: Perversion as a regulator of self-esteem 4: Fetishism 5: The gender disorders 6: Childhood gender identity disorders 7: True transsexualism 8: Exhibitionism, scopophilia, and voyerism 9: Clinical types of homosexuality 10: Reflections on homosexuality in women 11: Advances in the psychoanalytic theory and therapy of male homosexuality 12: Some aspects of the role of aggression and sadism in the perversions 13: Dynamic psychotherapy with sex-offenders 14: Child sexual abuse 15: Adult sequelae of childhood sexual abuse 16: Behavioural therapy treatment for sex offenders 17: The law and sexual deviation 18: Biological factors in the organization and expression of sexual behaviour

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