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From this perspective, the characteristics of the behavioral treatment of sexual disorders differentiating it from the Freudian-based treatments are clear. (1) The behavioral methods are concerned with the maintenance rather than with the origin of the sexual disorder. Origin and history become important only as they reveal what the person does to perpetuate the very [...]
The numbers of known cases of sex reassignment followed by a second reassignment to the original sex are few (four known and probably no more than ten) and the number of such cases published, fewer still. The transsexual with such a history apparently rushes into the initial surgery prematurely, impulsively, and even against psychological advice. [...]
As for changing notions of “men” and “women” as groups, related to particular sets of social roles, one might note the history of early twentieth-century social welfare legislation for women. That legislation, designed to protect women in the labor market and intended to protect both genders in a judicial climate tending to deny the state’s [...]
Numerous researchers have examined the differences between the sexes in the field of sense perception, using both children and adults as subjects. Although one would expect to find differences between the sexes in preference of sensory modalities, in sensitivity, and in patterns of perceptual organization of various experiences, there is, in fact, little support for [...]
Why do people seek sex outside of marriage? Edwards and Booth (1976a) looked for correlates of the frequency of extramarital involvement among a stratified probability sample of Toronto families among both subject-background variables and marital variables. Unlike previous research, they found no effects from education, occupation, employment of the wife, or religion. Age was the [...]
There is no reason at all why a person with dementia can’t enjoy music. Sitting and listening passively will give pleasure to many, as will taking a more active role, such as joining in by humming or singing. More importantly, those who have learnt to play a musical instrument in earlier life may retain this [...]
Many people looking after an older person with dementia are themselves elderly and suffer from chronic medical conditions of one sort or another. If on top of these they also have to cope with the mental and physical demands of caring for someone with dementia, it is possible that their own illnesses may be aggravated. [...]
A whole range of state welfare benefits can be found listed in leaflets and brochures, which are available from the local social security office or very often from a post office. A social worker will also know about them, as will the local office of Age Concern who publish their own booklet. It is surprising [...]
Most doctors, and others working with them in a professional capacity, have a reasonably clear idea about the course of Alzheimer’s disease and use this information when making a diagnosis or advising a family about the future. There is nevertheless a considerable degree of variability in the way in which Alzheimer’s disease alters a person’s [...]
The doctor’s first and most important task is to make sure that there isn’t a treatable cause for the dementia. This may be found in about one person in twenty who develops a dementing illness when he or she is over the age of seventy, and about one person in ten under this age. Discovering [...]