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Sexual Counseling

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Abstract

Primary psychosexual disorders are grouped in four classifications by the DSM III (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 3rd Edition).1 These are:

  1. 1.

    Gender disorders, which are characterized by an individual’s feelings of discomfort and inappropriateness about his or her anatomic sex and by persistent behaviors generally associated with the opposite sex;

  2. 2.

    Paraphilias, which are characterized by arousal and response to sexual objects or situations that are not part of normative arousal-activity patterns and in varying degrees may interfere with the capacity for reciprocal affectionate sexual activity;

  3. 3.

    Psychosexual dysfunctions, which are characterized by inhibitions in sexual desire or psychophysiologic changes in features of the psychosexual response cycle; and

  4. 4.

    A residual miscellaneous grouping, including egodystonic homosexuality and psychosexual disorders not otherwise classified.

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  1. Department of Family and Community Medicine, Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University, 300 South Hawthorne Road, 27103, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

    Robert B. Taylor M.D. (Professor) (Professor)

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Payton, C.E. (1983). Sexual Counseling. In: Taylor, R.B. (eds) Family Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4002-8_25

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