Books written by Barry McCarthy

  • Contemporary Male Sexuality: Confronting Myths and Promoting Change

    The new understanding supports an interactive (both-and) process (Byers & McNeil, 2006). Desire/pleasure/eroticism/satisfaction as an equitable team promotes individual and couple growth. Relational and sexual equities reinforce each ...

  • Couple Sexuality After 60: Intimate, Pleasurable, and Satisfying

    Rather than being afraid and viewing this as a devastating loss, Ferguson approached erection and sexuality in a healthy manner. His challenge was to be an aware lover. The sensitizing experience opened Ferguson to responsive sexual ...

  • Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Sexual Dysfunction

    He also made a negative attribution (C) that Tracy lacked empathy for the burden he felt as the principal financial provider, as she worked part-time so she could stay home three days a week with their two small children.

  • Rekindling Desire

    Whether you are married, cohabitating, or dating, or if you are 25, 45, or 75, reading this book will help renew your sexual desire and put you on the path towards healthy, pleasure-oriented sexuality.

  • Studying Society: An Introduction to Social Science

    This lively introduction to the field of social science concentrates on specific areas of people's lives: work and unemployment, citizenship, the changing nuclear and extended families, race relations, and the...

  • Reavivando el deseo en la pareja

    Después , cuatro meses antes de la boda , esto disminuyó a una o dos veces por semana . ... Después de regresa su luna de miel en Hawái , sus amigos bromeaban sobre lo maravillosa y sensual que debió haber sido su luna de miel , esto úl ...

  • Getting It Right the First Time: Creating a Healthy Marriage

    Barry and Emily McCarthy draw on 35 years of marriage, extensive clinical experience, and illustrative examples to provide younger generations with an informative, warmly written guide to the vital first years of partnership.

  • Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Sexual Dysfunction

    This book provides clinicians and clinical graduate students with a comprehensive description of readily useful, practical, and empirically-based treatments for the specific sexual dysfunctions most commonly encountered in clinical practice ...

  • Rekindling Desire

    Whether you are married, cohabitating, or dating, or if you are 25, 45, or 75, reading this book will help renew your sexual desire and put you on the path towards healthy, pleasure-oriented sexuality.

  • Sexual Awareness: Your Guide to Healthy Couple Sexuality

    In the newest edition of this classic text, veteran authors Barry and Emily McCarthy explain how desire, pleasure, and satisfaction can enrich your relationship. As the premier book on the...

  • Finding Your Sexual Voice: Celebrating Female Sexuality

    Finding Your Sexual Voice promotes the genuine understanding of strong female sexuality and empowers women to value desire, pleasure, eroticism, and satisfaction. The book confronts myths and misunderstandings about female...

  • Enhancing Couple Sexuality: Creating an Intimate and Erotic Bond

    Enhancing Couple Sexuality is an accessible guide that will help you to explore couple sexuality, with a focus on promoting healthy sexuality and overcoming sexual dysfunction, conflict and avoidance.

  • Sexual Awareness: Your Guide to Healthy Couple Sexuality

    As the premier book on the subject, Sexual Awareness focuses on factors that promote healthy couple sexuality with psychosocial skill exercises that help couples learn how to value sexuality as a positive and satisfying part of their lives.

  • Sexual Awareness: Your Guide to Healthy Couple Sexuality

    As the premier book on the subject, Sexual Awareness focuses on factors that promote healthy couple sexuality with psychosocial skill exercises that help couples learn how to value sexuality as a positive and satisfying part of their lives.

  • Sexual Awareness: Couple Sexuality for the Twenty-First Century

    The most popular of the Sexual Awareness series, this book offers sound sexual counsel from one of the nation's most respected therapists.

  • Couple Sexual Awareness: Building Sexual Happiness

    Written for people who want to enhance intimacy and sexual satisfaction, this practical book helps awareness and motivation become a positive force for individuals and between couples. Illustrations.

  • Female Sexual Awareness: Achieving Sexual Fulfillment

    Female Sexual Awareness: Achieving Sexual Fulfillment

  • Male Sexual Awareness: Increasing Sexual Satisfaction

    Male Sexual Awareness counsels both single men and men as part of a group. It explains why men feel and behave as they do. It explores the problems that prevent them from living a full, healthy sexual existence.