Sexuality After Spinal Cord Injury : Answers to Your Questions [Paperback]

Stanley H. DuCharme (Author), Kathleen M. Gill (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1996

...answers sexual questions in terms understandable for those without a medical background...question-and-answer format.

Editorial Reviews

Review

A godsend for disabled persons, especially those with spinal cord injury. . . . -- The SpringLake News

For those who want to explore their sexuality or that of another person with SCI... -- New Mobility

Here is a compendium that has long been needed. It gives well-informed answers to sexological questions... -- John Money, Ph.D.

About the Author

Stanley H. Ducharme, Ph.D., is a clinical/health psychologist on the medical staff at Boston Medical Center. He is also Clinical Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine and Assistant Professor of Urology at Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Ducharme is editor of the Journal of Sexuality and Disabilitiy and is a member of the board of directors of the Education and Training Foundation of the Paralyzed Veterans of America.

Kathleen M. Gill, Ph.D. is a lecturer in psychology at Harvard University School of Medicin, Boston, Massachusetts. She is also a clinical psychologist in the Sexual Function Clinic at Lahey-Dartmouth Medical Center in Burlington, Massachusetts. Dr. Gill is a founding clinical fellow in The American Academy of Clinical Sexology. She publishes regularly in the area of sexuality and maintains a private practice in sex therapy.

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company (October 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1557662657
• ISBN-13: 978-1557662651
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,316,366 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Important basic resource, February 21, 2000

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Kathleen L. Dunn - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sexuality After Spinal Cord Injury : Answers to Your Questions (Paperback)

This book is an important basic resource for people with SCI and the people who love them. While the material is heavily slanted to male sexuality issues after SCI, some female issues are also addressed. The format is designed in questions and answers, which allows the reader to skip around and read whatever topics they are interested in, or ready to deal with.

The book could use more detail in many areas, and suffers from a lack of any diagrams or drawings to show positions, sexual devices, etc., but is the only book written for people with SCI about this topic for many years. It could be seen as an introduction to the topic as well for many healthcare professionals, but would need to be follow-up by reading more from the professional literature.