Description

Dr. Felix Podimattam is one of the best-known moral theologians in India & outside. Besides his full time job as a professor, he finds time to write books at an amazing rate. He has authored 136 books.
Besides his Master’s degree in Political Science from Mysore, he holds a Licentiate in Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, & subsequently a Doctorate in Moral Theology from the Alphonsian Academy, Rome. His post-doctoral studies were pursued in Washington, DC, USA. At present he is professor of Moral Theology at St. Francis Theological College, Kottayam, Kerala, India.

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE
SEXUAL COUNSELLING
CHAPTER ONE
COUNSELING IN GENERAL
1. The Importance of Counseling
2. To Whom Do They Turn?
3. The Counselor
4. Professional Ethics
5. Counseling Arrangements
5-l.Setting the Appointment
5.2. Preparing for the Interview
5.3. Beginning the Interview
5.4. Determining the Length of the Interview
5.5. Closing the Interview
5.6. Keeping a Record of the Interview
5.7. Handling Persistent Cases
6. The Counseling Process
7. Your Best Attention
8. Accepting the Counsel
9. Waiting for the Real Problem
10. Recognizing the therapeutic Process
11. The Significance of Pauses
12. Problems and Their Setting
3. Tracing the Origins
14. Physical Causes
15. Multiple Perspectives
16. Motives for Discussion
17. Focusing on the Client’s Problem
18. Encouraging Self-Reliance
19. Handling Direct Questions
20. Involvement
21. Responsibility for Referrals
22. The Great Physician
23. Success in Counseling
24. Growing Professionally
CHAPTER TWO
SEXUAL COUNSELING IN PARTICULAR
1. Basic Attitudes
2. Healing Relationships
3. Sexuality: Faces and Masks
4. Common Problems, Common Approaches
5. Feelings about Sex
6. Translating Sexual Communication
7. Sex Drive: Too Much,Too Little
8. Sex and the Modern Neurosis
9. Sex and Depression
10. Transference in Sex Therapy
11. Sex Problems in Marriage
12. Marital Infidelity
13. Women’s Liberation and Sexual Problems
14. Adolescents and Sex
Peer Approval
Rebellion
Expressions of Hostility
Escape
A Cry for Help
15. Masturbation
16. Sexual Fantasies
17. Counseling Homosexuals
18. Child Molesting
19. The Sexually Deprived
20. The Seductive Client
21. When to Refer
PART TWO
SEX THERAPY
CHAPTER THREE
SEX RESEARCH
CHAPTER FOUR
SEX THERAPY
l.Nature of Sex Therapy
1.1. Difference between Counseling and Therapy
. Sexual Counseling and Sex Therapy
1.2. Effectiveness of Sex Therapy
1.3. Sexual Disharmony
1.4. Choosing a Sex Therapist
1.5. The Therapist as a Sexual Being
1 5.1. Relevance of the Sex of the Therapist
1 5 2 Basic Differences between Female and Male Therapists
1 5 3. Role Differences between Female and Male Therapists
1.5.4. Parental and Friendship Roles
1.6. Finding the Right Treatment
1.6.1. Behavior Therapy
1.6.2. The Masters and ]ohnson Technique and Modifications
1.6.3. Psychotherapy
1.6.4. Hormone and Drug Therapy
1.6.5. Hormone Replacement Therapy
1.6.6. Hormones and Chemical Inhibitors
1.6.7. Self-Help and Sex Aids
1.6.8. Friendship Therapy
1.6.9. Reality Therapy
1.7. Objections against Sex Therapy
2. Ethics of Sex Therapy
2.1. Importance of Religious and Moral Attitudes in Therapy
2.2. Confidentiality and Privacy
2.3. Therapist-Patient Intimacies
2.4. Standardization of Qualifications for Sex Therapists
3. Sex Therapy and Singles
4. Sex-Changing Surgery
4.1. Sex-Changing Surgery and Hermaphroditism
4.2. Sex-Changing Surgery and Transsexualism
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
END NOTES.