Sex, Love, and Mental Illness
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Sex, Love, and Mental Illness

A Couple's Guide to Staying Connected

  1. 160 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Sex, Love, and Mental Illness

A Couple's Guide to Staying Connected

About this book

A sex manual like no other, this book covers a variety of mental health problems and offers ways to overcome them when they threaten to undermine a loving relationship. Until now, the marketplace has offered little valuable information for couples in which one or both partners suffers from mental illness with resulting sexual problems. Sex, Love, and Mental Illness: A Couple's Guide to Staying Connected is for all of those couples. It will help both parties understand the effects of mental illness—and of the medications used to treat it—on sexual desire and performance and provide ways to maintain both physical and emotional intimacy. The first section of the book centers on common sexual concerns and loving someone with a mental disorder. The second addresses a wide range of mental disorders, their effects on relationships, and ways couples can work together to overcome those effects. Among the conditions covered are mood disorders; anxiety disorders; chronic pain; eating disorders; substance-related disorders; post traumatic stress; ADD; Asperger's Syndrome; and even severe mental illness, such as schizophrenia. The emphasis throughout is on each partner developing empathy and communication skills to enhance the sexual experience and preserve a healthy relationship.

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Yes, you can access Sex, Love, and Mental Illness by Stephanie J. Buehler in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Psychologie & Psychische Gesundheit in der Psychologie. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Series Foreword
  6. Foreword
  7. Abbreviations
  8. Chapter 1. Introduction
  9. Part I: Foundations of Sexuality
  10. Part II: Sexuality, Psychology, a nd Relationships
  11. Appendix 1. Sensate Focus Activities
  12. Appendix 2. Mindfulness and Sexual Pleasure
  13. Glossary
  14. Resources
  15. Index
  16. About the Author