Sex Made Simple: Clinical Strategies for Sexual Issues in Therapy

by Barry W. McCarthy

Sex Made Simple is a comprehensive guide to healing sexual issues and dysfunction, with dozens of strategies, techniques and methods to promote healthy sexuality for couples and individuals.

-Tools for couples to maintain strong, resilient sexual desire
-Strategies to move past affairs, sexual trauma, variant arousal
-Framework for counseling gay individuals and couples
-Treating sexual dysfunction
-Psychosexual skill exercises
-Case Studies
-Psychobiosocial model for assessment, treatment, and relapse prevention

Genres: Psychology, Nonfiction

238 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2015

Reviews

[Aundreah · Rating 3 out of 5]

Book is great for couple interventions, not ideal for individual treatment approaches. Book also leans too into heteronormativity and doesn’t include enough LGBTQ+ specific interventions. Overall includes great and tangible interventions and easy to implement talking points.

[Joye · Rating 4 out of 5]

good!
informative!
i get something new

[Matt · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am a psychiatrist with very little training in sex therapy, and this book has already given me confidence to discuss sexuality with my clients, normalizing and encouraging their experiences. The structure of the book is a little annoying - chapters are often interrupted by a text box that will be repeated in pararaph form immediately after, and the author keeps repeating a phrase that sex is "15-20 percent positive" but percent of WHAT is never said. Four of every five times are good? One of every five days is spent having good sex? It had a kind of meaningless pseudoscience to its tone that detracted from the otherwise useful and straightforward content. Case studies and sexual exercizes were helpful and plentiful, though the book often referenced exercizes from the author's other works without describing them. All in all, a very useful tool for the mental health professional.

[Alice · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a wonderful book to give clinicians (or anyone else) an easy to understand overview of sex therapy. I'll be rereading this and referring to it regularly.