Psychiatry and Sexual Medicine

Part 1 General aspects: Historical links between psychiatry and sexual medicine.- Sexual anatomy and functioning.- Neurophysiology of sexual response.- Sexual diversity and transcultural context.- Sexual relationships.- Sexual rights.- The (mental) health benefits of sexuality.- Sexual interview - mental health and relationship issues.- Ethical issues in clinical sexology.- Part 2 Sexual dysfunctions - focus on body and mind: Female sexual dysfunctions.- Male sexual dysfunctions.- Part 3 Psychiatric disorders and sexual functioning: Cognitive disorders.- Substance-related disorders.- Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders.- Mood disorders.- Anxiety and somatoform disorders.- Eating disorders.- Sleep disorders.- Personality disorders.- Mental retardation.- Autism spectrum disorders.- Part 4 Impact of psychopharmacology on sexual functioning and its management.- Part 5 Psychiatry confronted with gender and sexual orientation-related issues: Non-mainstream sexual orientation.- Gender dysphoria.- Part 6 Traumatic sexual experiences and variant sexual behaviors: Sexual violence: Neuroscientific and clinical l issues in offenders and persons at risk.- Psychiatric and sexual issues in victims of sexual abuse.- Psychiatric issues of paraphilic disorders.- Forensic issues in sexology.- Part 7 Other topics related to psychiatry and sexual medicine: Late-life sexuality.- Problematic hypersexuality.- Genital dysmorphophobia.- Persistent genital arousal disorder.- Post-orgasmic illness syndrome.- Part 8 Psychotherapy and counseling in sexual medicine.    

Michal Lew-Starowicz is Medical Doctor, board-certified specialist in psychiatry and sexology, psychotherapist, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Psychiatry at the Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Warsaw, Poland.  He is also Associate Professor at the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland, and Visiting Professor at the Department of Psychiatry, Social Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Hannover Medical School (MHH) in Germany. Professor Michal Lew-Starowicz received his medical degree at the Medical University of Warsaw and his PhD at the Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education in Warsaw. Since beginning of his scientific career he was involved in interdisciplinary studies integrating somatic diseases, mental disorders and sexual functioning. His recent research interests include compulsive sexual behavior with focus on the neuroimaging and pharmacological studies. He has published papers, books and book chapters, as well as educates physicians, psychologists, psychotherapists and nurses in the fields of psychiatry and sexual medicine. Professor Michal Lew-Starowicz is a Fellow of the European Committee of Sexual Medicine and a supervisor of sexual therapy certified by the Polish Sexological Society. He works in the field of sexual medicine with both men and women with sexual dysfunctions, couples and with transgender care. He leads an interdisciplinary team at the Lew-Starowicz Therapy Centre in Warsaw, Poland. Professor Michal Lew-Starowicz is a member of the International Society for Sexual Medicine and the European Society for Sexual Medicine since many years, and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Sexual Medicine. He also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Polish Sexological Society and the ESSM Scientific Subcommittee of Female Sexual Health and Dysfunction. 

Professor Annamaria Giraldi is Senior Consultant in Psychiatry in the Sexological Clinic at