Sexuality and Serious Mental Illness

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA and Northcoast Behavioral Healthcare System

• 1. Sexual Behavior in Persons with Serious Mental Illness: Patterns and Clinical Correlates 2. Human Sexuality and Mental Illness: Consumer Viewpoints and Recovery Principles 3. Sex and Mental Illness: Legal Considerations 4. Dilemmas of Managing Sexual Activity Among Psychiatric Patients 5. Developing and Implementing a Policy for Consensual Sex Between Inpatients 6. Teaching Individuals with Serious Mental Illness about Friendship, Dating and Sexuality 7. HIV and Serious Mental Illness 8. Sexual Trauma in Women with Severe and Persistent Mental Illness 9. Psychotropic Medications and Sexual Dysfunction 10. Pharmacologic Management of Abnormal Sexual Behavior 11. Sexuality, Stigma Busting and Mental Illness

This is the first book to draw together the collective wisdom and experience of clinicians, advocates, consumers, researchers, legal experts and administrators on this subject, and it succeeds very well in distilling this wisdom.