Psychology: sexual behaviour

The contemporary study of sexuality too often finds itself at an impasse, conceptualizing sexuality either psychologically or sociologically: sexologists and psychologists have tended to point to the biological origins of sexuality underpinned by hormones, drives and, most recently, genetics; in contrast, historians and sociologists point to the social field as the defining force that shapes the meanings given to sexuality and sexual experience.

This is an important intervention in debates on the family and sexuality, exploring clashes over sexual values and contemporary sexual dilemmas such as AIDS.

Women's awareness of the threat and reality of sexual violence is now perhaps more than ever publicly acknowledged.

On Lust & Longing brings two of Blanche D'Alpuget's prominent works together.

Unmastered is a new kind of book that allows us to think afresh about sex and desire.

A dream in which a man has sex with his mother may promise him political or commercial success--according to dream interpreters of late antiquity, who, unlike modern Western analysts, would not necessarily have drawn conclusions from the dream about the dreamer's sexual psychology.

Equal parts memoir, how-to and social satire, Mistress Ruby Ties it Together is a guided tour through New York''s S underworld, where the author worked as a professional dominatrix to subsidize her writing career.

"e;Sex, Travel & Latin American Women"e; is a breezy tale of 24 years discovering the sexuality of Latin America while roaming the streets of the world created by the Spanish.

Kenny Roper has seen too many movies about WWI to hang around and be caught in the draft of WWII.

Adam Phillips uses the idea of flirtation to explore the virtues of being uncommitted - to people, to ideas, to methods - and the pleasures of uncertainty.

Stories of women in the Bible have been interpreted by artists, writers, musicians, filmmakers, and biblical commentators for centuries.

The so-called purity laws in Leviticus 11-15 reflect a cultic and social view on the male and female body.

Recognizing that human experience is very much influenced by inhabiting bodies, the past decade has seen a surge in studies about representation of bodies in religious experience and human imaginations regarding the Divine.

There have been rapid developments in the psychological management of sexually transmitted diseases, particularly HIV and AIDS.

New for the Wiley Series in Forensic Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Approaches to the Treatment of Sexual Offenders describes and evaluates the current methods of measuring sexual interest in sex offenders - namely penile plethysmography, the Abel Assessment for Sexual Interest, Affinity 2.

Since the first edition of this practical book was published in 1990, a number of important developments have taken place and have been incorporated into the new edition.

Did you know that women never wore knickers until the late 18th century?

In Constitutional Culture, Independence, and Rights, Javier Garcia Oliva and Helen Hall coin the term "e;constitutional culture"e; to encapsulate the collective rules and expectations that govern the collective life within a jurisdiction.

In Constitutional Culture, Independence, and Rights, Javier Garcia Oliva and Helen Hall coin the term "e;constitutional culture"e; to encapsulate the collective rules and expectations that govern the collective life within a jurisdiction.

This book explores what we mean when we use the term "e;perversion.

This book examines the unrecognised prevalence of sadomasochism and perverse thinking in personal relationships as well as the public domain, and discusses the way it contributes to the culture of the victim.

This book examines the terminology used in the analysis of sadomasochism, surveys extensively, and in detail, the theories of other psychoanalysts, and explores the relationship between sadomasochism and depression; its relationship to psychosis, borderline states, and many other conditions.

This book discusses the problems of the sexual life of woman throughout the duration of her sexual maturity, i.

Throughout the year of 1995, a series of debates took place under the auspices of the Higher Education Network for Research and Information in Psychoanalysis.

This book outlines three shibboleths of psychoanalysis: psychic bisexuality, the Oedipus complex, and social ontology.

Green deplores the absence of sexuality and the erotic from current psychoanalytic theory and practice.

This book expands the symbols of the phallus and vagina into cosmic symbols, not by reference to myths but by his interpretations of embryonic, physiological, psychological facts.

This book is a selection of papers from the eleventh John Bowlby Memorial Conference.

This book aims to show that the function of day-dreams is to state a problem that has been disguised and then to solve it, the problem and the solution being the poles between which excitement flows.

Sex, Mind, and Emotion is a collection of predominantly clinical papers, exploring innovative work in the field.

From its etymological roots, sex is related to a scission, Latin for sectus, secare, meaning "e;to divide or cut.

Modern society has introduced many new relationships and family forms and the pluralisation of sexual lifestyles in the hundred years since Freud.

Michael Balint addresses himself to a variety of subjects of interest to both the layman and the practicing clinical psychologist or psychiatrist: among others, sex and society, masturbation, discipline, menstruation, punishment, aging, and parapsychology.

Perversion - its ubiquity in infantile life and its persistence in the psychical and sexual lives of some adults - was a central element of Freud's lifelong work.

This book focuses on the subject of the development of masculinity and femininity.

To Freud, female sexuality remained something of a mystery: a riddle and a dark continent.

Not all men vie with their fathers for the love of their mothers.

The first essay, "e;The Impossible Couple"e;, is both a humorous and razor-sharp analysis of the contemporary relationship between man and woman.

Porn is a complex symbol of our current world, and a shining example of the 'Shadow' of the Western culture.

In this volume contemporary staff describe their thinking and clinical work.

This book is a collection of Ferenczi's early papers which secured him, in an amazingly short time, his prominent position among Freud's followers.

This book provides an overview of the events of intimacy, a chronicle of the erogenous events that occur in a woman's body.

This book examines the theories of female sexuality, using the Freudian and non-Freudian approach to the unconscious.

This book examines the forces of sadomasochism in the clinical domain where transference and countertransference reside.

This book explores what we mean when we use the term "e;perversion.

This book examines the unrecognised prevalence of sadomasochism and perverse thinking in personal relationships as well as the public domain, and discusses the way it contributes to the culture of the victim.

This book examines the terminology used in the analysis of sadomasochism, surveys extensively, and in detail, the theories of other psychoanalysts, and explores the relationship between sadomasochism and depression; its relationship to psychosis, borderline states, and many other conditions.