Meet the editors

Floriana Irtelli, psychoanalyst and psychotherapist, is a member of the Italian Society of Psychoanalysis of Relationships and the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She has been lecturing for several years at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy. She has worked at the Fatebenefratelli Hospital, Milan, performing scientific research and clinical activities. She is among the authors of a

number of books *A Fresh Look at Anxiety Disorders* and *Psychopathy: New Updates on an Old Phenomenon*, and has published articles for the *Journal of Affective Disorders*, *Journal of Research in Psychotherapy*, and *Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing*. She has participated in numerous conferences, seminars, and congresses, such as the 2015 World Congress of Psycho-Oncology. She is the author of *Illuminarsi di Ben-essere*, *Familiar-mente*, *Contemporary Perspectives on Relational Wellness, Psychoanalysis and the Modern Family*, and *Rosso smeraldo. L'epoca delle psicosi bianche*, and the editor of *Psychosis, Biopsychosocial and Relational Perspectives* and *Family Therapy: New Intervention Programs and Researches*.

Dr. Federico Durbano was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1963, and is now living near Milan, where he received a degree in Medicine and specialized in Psychiatry. He has had different work experiences in a number of hospitals (e.g. Milan "Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico," Treviglio, Melegnano, Fatebenefratelli), where he achieved significant career milestones. He is now Director of the Psychiatric Unit in Melzo Hospital—ASST Melegnano e della

Martesana and Director of the Mental Health and Substance Dependence Department in the same ASST. He has had teaching assignments from the University of Milan (Nursing School), University of Castellanza, University of San Marino, Sassari University, and the Business School of Il Sole 24 Ore (Masters in Criminology). He has also attended more than 90 local and national congress and courses as an invited speaker, and has published more than 170 papers in national and international journals and books. He also works as a technical advisor to the court in the field of forensic psychiatry.

Dr. Simon George Taukeni is an editor, researcher and academic working at the University of Namibia. He is a former post-doctoral research fellow with a PhD, MPH, MEd, a specialized postgraduate diploma in Behavioral and Emotional Disorder, and other undergraduate qualifications. Dr. Taukeni's research interests are in health psychology and public health.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

*by Ganga Bey*

**Section 3**

Healthy Sexuality

Diabetes Patients

*and T.S. Sathyanarayana Rao*

Quality of Life and Menopause

*by César Velasco-Téllez, Manuel Cortés-Bonilla, Guillermo Ortiz-Luna, Linda Sánchez-Zelayeta, Horacio Méndez-Serrano, Cinthya Salazar-Jiménez, Abraham Zavala-García and Alicia Sánchez-Cevallos*

**Preface XI**

A Global Overview about Quality of Life **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

A Global Overview about Health Psychology **15**

**Chapter 2 17**

**Chapter 3 49**

Biological Perspectives **65**

**Chapter 4 67**

**Chapter 5 81**

Quality of Life and Biopsychosocial Paradigm:

*by Floriana Irtelli and Federico Durbano*

A Narrative Review of the Concept and Specific Insights

Health Disparities at the Intersection of Gender and Race: Beyond Intersectionality Theory in Epidemiologic Research

*by J. Shivananda Manohar, Suman S. Rao, Abhinav Tandon* 

Effects of Physical Exercise on the Quality of Life of Type 2

*by Pablo Tomas-Carus, Nilton Leite and Armando Raimundo*
