Psychiatry and Sexual Health: An Integrative Approach - Hardcover

Juan E. Mezzich; Ruben Hernandez

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0765704587 ISBN 13: 9780765704580

Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc. (UK), 2006

Synopsis

Doctors Mezzich and Hernandez have produced a comprehensive, progressive, and readable volume on a difficult and important topic. —Library Journal

Drawing from its vast intellectual resources, the World Psychiatric Association established a multidisciplinary and international workgroup of scholars, clinicians, and researchers to develop the Educational Program on Sexual Health. The present volume, Psychiatry and Sexual Health: A Integrative Approach, is the result of this collaboration, and represents a new knowledge base for the discipline.

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About the Author

Juan E. Mezzich MD, PhD, is current president of the World Psychiatric Association. He is professor of psychiatry and director, division of Psychiatric Epidemiology and International Center for Mental Health, at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York University. He has held professorships at Stanford and the University of Pittsburgh. He has been a leader in the development of the DSM. He has authored or coauthored over 200 scientific journal articles and book chapters (including current sections on international diagnosis and psychiatric epidemiology).

Ruben Hernandez, MD is professor of forensic psychiatry at the Central University of Venezuela. He is a leader in sexual health (formerly called sexology) throughout Latin America having served as president of many professional organizations including, among many others, the Venezuelan Society of Medical Sexology and the International Academy of Sexology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc. (UK)
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0765704587
• ISBN 13: 9780765704580
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256