This week in abnormal psychology I had my second exam, which covered a lot of different information about health psychology, anxiety, dissociation, somatoform disorders, mood disorders and personality disorders. I think the Essentials of Abnormal psychology textbook covered this information well. I started to look at chapter 9 for the next exam, which talks about various sexual and gender identity disorders and some aspects of these disorders I was not that familiar with. Chapter 9 talked about gender identity disorders which are also known as the psychological discontent of ones own biological sex. Gender identity disorders are the disturbance in ones own sense of sexual identity. A sexual dysfunction disorder would be a physical problem that somehow affects one's sex life. Paraphilia is a new term for sexual deviation and it stands for sexual arousal that is associated with inappropriate persons or objects. Philia stands for strong attraction and para means abnormal. For researchers to understand more about sexual practices they have to conduct surveys among the population. This topic can effect emotional and physical well being and is complex so I am sure understanding more about this topic could be relevant to the field of psychology.