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 | | Behaviours that interfere with the quality of life are such things as drug or alcohol abuse, sexual promiscuity, high risk behaviour and the like. | | | Dialectical Behaviour Therapy is an innovative method of treatment that has been developed specifically to treat this difficult group of patients in a way which is optimistic and which preserves the morale of the therapist. | | | These are any behaviours by the patient or therapist that interfere in any way with the proper conduct of therapy and risk preventing the patient from getting the help she needs. |
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| | When kittens reach sexual maturity their behaviour can change and they may become increasingly independent as the juvenile period of development ends and they become adult cats. | | | During this phase of development the behaviour patterns expressed by a cat do not change significantly, but there is a gradual improvement of motor skills associated with the increase in muscle development and improvement in neuromuscular coordination. | | | The time of weaning also affects the development of play behaviour. |
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| | The Jackobsen's Organ is also connected to the part of the cats brain concerned with sexual behaviour and appetite. | | | This behaviour comes from kittenhood, kittens knead their mother while suckling to make the milk flow more freely. | | | For the cat, this is perfectly natural - this behaviour should never be punished in any way. |
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| Â | Sexual Development and Behaviour |
| | Psychosexual Development is a broad term that can be considered the process of growing and maturing physically, emotionally, intellectually and spiritually so that there is a healthy balance between the physical/biological aspects of sexual behaviour and the psychological and emotional context in which the behaviour occurs. | | | It is thus more appropriate to view a child or adult’s sexual feelings, knowledge and behaviours within the context of that person’s physical, cognitive, and emotional development. | | | Health thus refers to a situation in which a person is able to achieve emotionally intimate relationships, and in which the sexual behaviours arise out of a desire for physical and emotional intimacy rather than out of a distorted attempt to meet some other emotional need. |
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| Â | Robert L. Spitzer: Can Some Gay Men and Lesbians Change Their Sexual Orientation? |
| | This at the least is a change in heterosexual behaviour (namely, they began being involved in heterosexual sexual behaviour) and a change in heterosexual attraction. | | | One could potentially have asked subjects' spouses, if applicable, questions about sexual activity and about their perception of their partner's satisfaction, etc. For those subjects who had been in therapy, one could potentially have asked the therapists to confirm, refute, or cast in doubt the changes that their clients were reporting. | | | Spitzer's goal in carrying out this research was to "study the self-reported experiences of individuals who claim to have achieved a change from homosexual to heterosexual attraction that has lasted at least five years". |
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| | He did make a major contribution by drawing attention to the existence of childhood sexuality, however, and the problem of incest avoidance has continued to arouse interest among primatologists as well as among students of human behaviour. | | | I have always found Freud's notions of stages in infantile sexuality ("oral", "anal" etc) and the notions of "oedipal" or "castration" complexes to be extremely difficult to accept. | | | The incest taboo exists to counteract this strong natural inclination of human beings to engage in incestuous behaviour. |
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| Â | A Report on Mental Illnesses in Canada |
| | These include physical illness, sexual identity issues, unstable family, physical illness, risk-taking or self-destructive behaviour, suicide of a friend, isolation and substance abuse. | | | Suicidal behaviour that does not result in death (attempted suicide) is a sign of serious distress and can be a turning point for the individual if he/she is given sufficient assistance to make the necessary life changes. | | | Suicidal behaviour is an important and preventable public health problem in Canada. |
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| Â | Penis-Exercise.net / Scientific articles on yohimbine / Yohimbine and apomorphine increase sexual appetite |
| | Abstract: The possible interaction of yohimbine with the dopaminergic system in the mediation of sexual behaviour expression in sexually exhausted male rats was investigated. | | | Data suggest that the dopaminergic system might be the final pathway for the yohimbine-induced sexual behaviour expression in satiated rats. | | | Yohimbine interacts with the dopaminergic system to reverse sexual satiation: further evidence for a role of sexual motivation in sexual exhaustion. |
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| Â | Hormones & the Origin of Sexual Behaviour |
| | A series of experiments showing that it is possible to effect the sexual behaviour of animals by manipulating hormones circulating in their bodies during early development is presented. | | | These diagrams are based on the drawings found in most textbooks that cover the the biological bases of sexual behaviour. | | | Adult sexual behavior in the rat depends on whether the brain was organised by gonadal hormones during the first few days after birth. |
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| Â | KNAW > Publicaties > Detailpagina |
| | A considerable discrepancy exists between advances in fundamental research about the architecture and regulation of sexual behaviour, and the application of this knowledge to social problems. | | | This volume aims at showing different disciplinary perspectives to questions about the steering of sexual behaviour and sexual emotions. | | | The topics addressed in this book are: neuroanatomical and neurophysiological aspects, behavioral studies in animals, behavioral studies in humans, evolutionary theories and theories about love, hypoactive and hyperactive sexual motivation. |
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| Â | Assessing Suicidal Youth With Antisocial, Borderline, or Narcissistic Personality Disorder |
| | Results: Patients with antisocial or borderline personality disorder are likely to be at increased risk for suicidal behaviour when they demonstrate such comorbid disorders as major depressive episodes or substance abuse disorders, when they experience recent negative life events, or when they have a history of childhood sexual abuse. | | | Patients with antisocial or borderline personality disorder are likely to be at increased risk for suicidal behaviour when they demonstrate comorbid disorders, such as major depressive episodes or substance abuse disorders, when they experience recent negative life events, or when they have a history of childhood sexual abuse. | | | Finally, Kohut suggested that narcissistic patients may be at less risk of acting out suicidal behaviour once they have established a stable transference within a therapeutic relationship and once the therapist has established some empathic closeness to the patient’s fragmented self (86). |
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| Â | Masters and Johnson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | By attempting to understand the structure, psychology and mechanisms of sexual behaviour, Masters and Johnson provided the ground work for a theory driven approach to treating sexual dysfunction and inadequacy. | | | Whilst not denying that both Kinsey and Masters and Johnson have been a crucial step in sex research, she believes that we must understand the cultural and personal construction of sexual experience to make the research relevant to sexual behaviour outside the laboratory. | | | Louis to treat sexual complaints such as impotency and inability to achieve orgasm, based on their findings in their laboratory studies. |
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| Â | Eduard Bernstein: Abnormal sexual intercourse (1895) |
| | Although the theme of sexual behaviour may not be of paramount significance for the economic and political struggle of social-democracy, the search for an objective means of assessing this side of social life as well is not irrelevant. | | | However, law and custom do not enquire into this, but proscribe and punish only certain kinds of sexual intercourse, in which even the appearance of a connection with procreation falls away – which in fact are not merely counter to nature, but also counter to normality, which run counter to the firmly maintained fictional norm. | | | The state is not concerned with what the man who buys the prostitute does with her; except, should the man infect her with a sexual disease, it sequesters – the prostitute. |
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| | Four of the six he interviewed said they had engaged in a sexual relationship with their birth relative while others described experiences ranging from intense erotic feelings toward their relatives to sexual behaviour such as fondling and touching. | | | Factors that could contribute to these sexual feelings included the mutual attractiveness of physical similarity and the fact that when they were last together, when the adopted child was six months old and under, their physical relationship could have included fondling and close skin contact. | | | This may be compounded by any sexual relationship resulting from the attraction. |
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| | But extrapolating this to humans is not simple, because unlike the reflex driven behaviour of rodents, human sexual behaviour is influenced by complex conscious decision-making. | | | But putting this definition into practice is not simple, because sexual orientation does not always correlate with sexual behaviour and some people with homosexual orientations may never engage in homosexual activity. | | | The authors noted that the observed relationship between sexuality and religiousity, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status provided further evidence of social influences on percieved sexual identity. |
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| | He stresses that none of the interviewees who were sexually aroused by or had sex with a parent or sibling considered this incestuous, or that their behaviour was wrong, "But when I asked them if they might ever have similar feelings about members of their adoptive family, they shuddered at the suggestion". | | | Freud's theory, propounded in 1897, that every male infant has an overwhelming sexual desire for his mother, and every female for her father, is the cornerstone of psychoanalytic theory. | | | Gonyo's reputation as the world's leading GSA "expert" came about largely as a result of her own experience of strong sexual attraction, when, in 1979 and aged 42, she was reunited with her adult son 26 years after she had given him up for adoption. |
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| | Bagley, C., & D'Augelli, A. Suicidal behaviour in gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth. | | | McDaniels, J. S., Purcell, D. W., & D'Augelli, A. The relationship between sexual orientation and risk for suicide: Research findings and future directions for research and prevention. | | | Hershberger, S. L., and D'Augelli, A. The impact of victimization on the mental health and suicidality of lesbian, gay, and bisexual youths. |
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| | Perhaps more than you wanted to know about dolphin's sexual behaviour (Encyclopedia Brittanica) | | | I also consider statistical issues such as the definition of a qualitative difference and methodological issues such as the relationship between imaging and behavioural data. | | | In this case, imaging data simply comprise another dependent variable, along with behavioural data, that can be used to test competing theories. |
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| Â | Rainfalls stimulate sexual behaviour of dominant Arabian oryx male |
| | These improved range conditions seem to have stimulated the sexual behaviour of dominant males. | | | Rainfalls stimulate sexual behaviour of dominant Arabian oryx males [19 May 2004] | | | Rainfalls stimulate sexual behaviour of dominant Arabian oryx male |
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| Â | Intersections: Performing Sexual Identity: Naming and Resisting 'Gayness' in Modern Thailand |
| | The need to unravel sex, gender identity and gender roles, patterns of sexual behaviour and sexual meaning, and to move away from the confinement of binary gender categories is well-noted. | | | The reluctance to openly discuss homosexual behaviours[44] and the need to be discreet has, in the past, removed male homosexuality from public discourse and rendered the Thai lesbian invisible. | | | For many Asians, the notion of 'coming out' as a means of breaking the silence around homosexuality is a 'very white model.'[82] It is not that questions of sexuality have no significance or legitimacy or priority in Asian contexts, but rather that material conditions affect social priorities differently in Asian cultures, as they do elsewhere. |
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| | Saskia then encouraged Max to go for it if he really felt the need to relieve his sexual frustration, even experimenting on his behalf with a technique for hiding the proceedings under the covers. | | | It usually takes more than two weeks to rear its head, but the issue of sexual frustration came about at bedtime tonight. | | | He probably meant female, but it seemed to us that his efforts to join-in with the laddish behaviour weren’t natural; in other words, he isn’t the kind of guy that would normally wolf-whistle women etc. |
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| | "The fact that psychosocial traits such as number of sexual partners and infidelity appear to behave as other common complex genetic traits in humans lends support to evolutionary psychologists' theories on the origin of human behaviour," Spector said. | | | The scientists suspect that many genes could be associated with sexual behaviour. | | | The scientists questioned the twins about their sexual behaviour, total number of partners and their attitudes about infidelity. |
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| Â | Young people, crises and suicidal behaviour – through the eyes of the researcher and Henrik Ibsen |
| | Research, including Norwegian research, has demonstrated that a close relationship, particularly to parents, is one of the strongest protections against suicidal behaviour (Gould et al. | | | We know that young persons are particularly vulnerable to being "infected" by the suicidal behaviour of others, especially within their own family (Grøholt 1999). | | | Children are more vulnerable when the traumas comprise some of the other crisis aspects, such as loss or problems in close relationships, which may be the case with physical or sexual abuse in a family. |
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| Â | Diversity - sexual identity - Who - The British Council United Kingdom |
| | Individuals’ rights to assume gender roles congruent with their self perceived identity should be respected, rather than limited by what society deems to be acceptable "masculine" or "feminine" behaviour. | | | Many societies around the world continue to promote a ‘traditional’ view of family and gender roles, based on the assumption that people should be heterosexual. | | | Different perceptions of sexuality may also be manifested in terms an individual’s self-image and the extent to which a person identifies their physical or genetic sex. |
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| Â | What is the Victorian Centres Against Sexual Assault (CASA) Forum? |
| | It is sexual behaviour that someone has not agreed to, where another person uses physical or emotional force against them. | | | Sexual Assault is any behaviour of a sexual nature that makes someone feel uncomfortable, frightened, intimidated or threatened. | | | We also work towards the elimination of sexual violence through community and professional education, informing government policy, advocating for law reform and facilitating research to increase community understanding of the nature and incidence of sexual assault. |
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| | This article refers to sexual identity as used by sexologists, rather than to sexual orientation, sexual behaviour, gender identity, gender role or sex | | | The term sexual identity is used by psychologists and some recent writers in the general area of sexology to describe the gender or sex with which a person identifies, or is identified. | | | The causes of transgender and transsexuality are not well known, but preliminary evidence may have been found in areas of the brain's structure and size, i.e., on issues of sexual identity that go beyond the status of the genitalia. |
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| | OBJECTIVES: To compare the sexual behaviour questions asked on three different questionnaires assessing prostitutes' unsafe sexual practices. | | | CONCLUSIONS: Questionnaires which ask detailed questions about unsafe practices between prostitutes and their clients but not about unsafe sexual practices between prostitutes and lovers may not obtain valid data needed for prevention programs. | | | RESULTS: There was a great deal of similarity across questionnaires in terms of the questions about prostitutes' contacts with clients, but questions about sexual contacts with short-term and long-term partners varied considerably. |
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