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Sex Therapy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Keith Hawton
Keith Hawton
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Warneford Hospital and University Department of Psychiatry, Oxford
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The introduction of sex therapy two decades ago was accompanied by largely uncritical enthusiasm, with the result that too few careful evaluative studies were conducted. Those that were indicated that a weekly or twice weekly schedule of treatment sessions was best and that treatment by individual therapists was as effective as co-therapy. Some of the major prognostic factors and the long-term results of sex therapy have now been elucidated. Low sexual desire has emerged as a problem for which our now traditional methods of treatment are often inadequate and new therapeutic approaches are required. Current efforts to explore the beliefs and cognitive processes associated with erectile dysfunction are proving rewarding and are likely to enrich therapeutic interventions in the future. Attention should now be paid to the beliefs and cognitions associated with other sexual dysfunctions, both male and female.

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Overviews of Significant Recent Developments
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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , January 1991, pp. 131 - 136
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1991

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