Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction and overview : clinical perspectives on and treatment for sexual desire disorders / Sandra R. Leiblum -- The double flame : reconciling intimacy and sexuality, reviving desire / Esther Perel -- Using crucible therapy to treat sexual desire disorders / David Schnarch -- The canary in the coal mine : reviving sexual desire in long-term relationships / Kathryn Hall -- Confronting male hypoactive sexual desire disorder : secrets, variant arousal, and good-enough sex / Barry McCarthy and Alisa Breetz -- "Desire disorders" or opportunities for optimal erotic intimacy? / Peggy J. Kleinplatz -- A skeptical view of desire norms and disorders promotes clinical success / Leonore Tiefer and Marny Hall -- Complaints of low sexual desire : how therapeutic assessment guides further interventions / Rosemary Basson -- Cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness-based therapy for low sexual desire / Lori A. Brotto and Jane S.T. Woo -- Dancing to their own music / David C. Treadway -- Treatment of low sexual desire in the context of comorbid individual and relationship dysfunction / Douglas K. Snyder -- The role of androgens in the treatment of hypoactive sexual desire disorder in women / Joanna B. Korda, Sue W. Goldstein, and Irwin Goldstein -- Sexual psychopharmacology and the treatment of desire deregulation / Bonnie R. Saks -- The desire to feel whole again : the quest for sexual desire after breast cancer / Michael Krychman and Susan Kellogg Spadt.