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Clinical psychology of sex, shame and change in men

Eleven essays drawn from ten years of NHS psychosexual practice. One cornerstone essay on the work as a whole. One evidence companion to the published research. Nine foundation essays on the specific clinical territories the work covers.

Cornerstone essay
Sex, shame, and change in men: ten years of psychosexual clinical experience
What ten years of working with men has taught me about sex, shame, and change
Evidence companion
The evidence behind the work
Ten years of NHS psychosexual practice with men, and what the published research now shows
Shame in men's sexual problems: what compassion focused therapy adds
What I've learnt about shame, and what actually helps
Self-criticism and the recurrence of sexual problems in men
Why some men's sexual problems keep coming back
Psychosexual therapy with men: why talking about sex is the hardest part
Why sex therapy is harder for some men, and what makes it work
Group therapy for men's sexual problems: what one-to-one cannot reach
What group therapy can do for some men that no one-to-one session can
Drugs and sex (including chemsex) and compulsive sexual behaviour: a clinical view
When drugs and sex stop feeling like a choice, and what most treatment gets wrong
Erectile dysfunction in men: what we experience in our bodies can sometimes start in our brains
Why erection problems aren't always a body problem, and what most treatment misses
Sexual identity in men: when it shifts in adult life
Why sexual identity isn't fixed for some men, and what most therapy misses
Chronic pelvic pain in men: why it persists and what helps
Why pelvic pain keeps going for some men, and what helps when nothing else has
Living with HIV: the mental weight the new public narrative misses
Why living with HIV still carries weight, and what the new public narrative misses