Textbook of Rare Sexual Medicine Conditions

Description of Textbook of Rare Sexual Medicine Conditions

This textbook aims to provide the reader with knowledge and skills on rare sexual medicine conditions. The aim is to increase awareness in healthcare providers so they improve their ability to support their patients suffering from debilitating symptoms – characterized by sexual dysfunction, somatic symptoms, and psychological disorders that persist for an extended period.

The available knowledge from the medical literature and clinical experience is summarized, outlining possible pathophysiological mechanisms, and clinical management, including biological-psychological-social contributing factors according to expert opinion, are described.

Written by experts in the field, this publication will be a unique scientific collection of multidisciplinary practical and clear information for urologists, gynaecologists, psychiatrists, endocrinologists, neurologists, dermatologists, primary health care professionals and psychologists. The didactical approach will be useful for professionals, residents, and students.

About the Author

Yacov Reisman MD, PhD, FECSM, ECPS. Urologist, sexologist, lecturer, honorary professor, and currently medical director of Flare-Health institute in Amstelveen, senior lecturer of Clinical Sexology at the postgraduate institute RINO-Amsterdam and co-director of the European Society for Sexual Medicine (ESSM) School of Sexual Medicine. He has more than 20 years of clinical experience focusing on sexual dysfunctions in males and females.

Lior Lowenstein, MD, MS, MHA, MBA, FECSM. Associate Professor in Gynecology, division director of Gynecology in Galilee Medical Center. Following completion of residency in Gynecology, Prof. Lowenstein did a year fellowship at Loyola University in Chicago in Urogynecology.

Francesca Tripodi, PsyD, ECPS. Psychotherapist, clinical sexologist, lecturer and clinical supervisor, working at the Institute of Clinical Sexology in Rome. Her 25-years clinical experience focuses primarily on sexual dysfunction and couple therapy.

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