The Existential Importance of the Penis
eBook - ePub

The Existential Importance of the Penis

A Guide to Understanding Male Sexuality

  1. 216 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Existential Importance of the Penis

A Guide to Understanding Male Sexuality

About this book

The first of its kind, this book applies existential principles to sexual problems, providing clinicians with the tools to understand male sexuality more deeply.

Alighting from the existential psychotherapy tenets of Irvin D. Yalom, Watter introduces the notion that the penis is a conduit for male emotion, and hence regulates their ability to form and experience intimate relationships. Subsequent chapters explore an existential view of male sexual dysfunction, non-sexual trauma, hypersexuality, changing bodies through illness, age, and injury, and examines badly behaved men to understand the meaning of certain behaviors.

This book will be an invaluable resource for sex therapists, marriage and family therapists, psychologists, and social workers in practice and in training, assisting them to develop the therapeutic skills that will improve their understanding of men's psychological experience.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9780367635084
eBook ISBN
9781000736014
Edition
1
Topic
Psychology
Subtopic
Mental Health in Psychology
Index
Psychology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsements
  3. Half Title
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Credits List
  10. Foreword
  11. In the Beginning …
  12. Introduction
  13. 1 The Penis Speaks: An Existential View of Male Sexual Dysfunction
  14. 2 Existential Psychotherapy and the Work of Irvin D. Yalom, M.D.
  15. 3 Death: The Unavoidable Condition
  16. 4 Existential Sex Therapy
  17. 5 Hypersexuality, Sex Addiction, Out-of-Control Sexual Behavior: A Diagnostic Dilemma?
  18. 6 Why Men Behave Badly
  19. 7 Aging: The Penis Speaks, but Sometimes It Whispers
  20. And in the End …
  21. Appendix I: World Confederation for Existential Therapy Statement on the Nature of Existential Therapy
  22. Bibliography
  23. About Dr. Daniel N. Watter
  24. Index