Book Description
Continuing the momentum of their revolutionary book, Coping with Premature Ejaculation, Michael Metz and Barry McCarthy, two of the nation’s most respected sex therapists, bring you the only complete self-help resource on the market for men dealing with erectile dysfunction. Not only is this book the first to address this problem using the most current research into male sexuality, but it is the first to propose a treatment approach that unites medical, psychological, and relationship-enhancing techniques into a cooperative process that couples can work through together. The book begins with an uncomplicated explanation of ED and a discussion of the mythologies that surround much of male sexuality. After describing the integrated treatment approach, the book helps men develop a set of realistic sexual expectations for each phase of their lives and explores the role of their partners in resolving ED problems. Exercises help men assess the nature of their problems. The results of the assessments lead readers to explore medical, psychological, and couples-related interventions. The book closes with a detailed program for relapse prevention. Ultimately, the Metz-McCarthy approach encourages couples to explore their own sexual intimacy as a means of overcoming the problem.


From the Publisher
With a therapeutically integrated technique and a unique couple-centered approach, two of America’s most prominent sex therapists offer men and their partners the most effective solutions available to overcome erectile dysfunction. According to the National Institutes of Health, between 15 and 30 million American men experience chronic erectile dysfunction. This is the only book on the market that addresses the biological, social, and psychological causes of ED, as well as offering a comprehensive treatment plan that includes a relapse prevention program. This book is written by leading sexologist, Michael Metz, and Barry McCarthy, author of the best-selling book, Sexual Awareness.This is one of the only books on this subject that encourages couples to work together to overcome the problem.


About the Author
Michael Metz, PH.D., works in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota and is the country’s leading sexologist in the area of PE. He is a major spokesperson for a comprehensive, integrated biopsychosocial approach to addressing and resolving sexual problems. After twelve years on the faculty of the University of Minnesota Medical School, he currently works in private practice with Meta Associates as a psychologist, marital therapist, and sex therapist treating individuals and couples, and is affiliated with the University of Minnesota’s Department of Family Social Science. He has published more than forty-five professional articles and conducted numerous workshops and talks on marital and sex therapy. He is the author of the Styles of Conflict Inventory (SCI), a clinical assessment instrument to evaluate the conflict patterns in relationships. Barry McCarthy, PH.D., is a clinical psychologist with a subspecialty in marriage and sex therapy practicing at the Washington Psychological Center in Washington DC. He is professor of psychology at American University where he teaches an undergraduate human sexual behavior course. Barry, with his wife Emily, has written seven well-respected books, the most recent being Sexual Awareness: Couple Sexuality for the Twenty-First Century and Rekindling Desire: A Step By Step Program to Help Low-Sex and No-Sex Marriages. In addition, he has published over fifty-five professional articles and fourteen books and has presented over one hundred and ten workshops nationally and internationally.

FROM THE PUBLISHER