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Sexual dysfunctions are common among men and women, with 40–45% of women and 20–30% of men experiencing at least one incidence (Lewis et al. 2004), though prevalence fluctuates with definition and sampling (Mitchell et al. 2016; McCabe et al. 2015). As a concept, sexual dysfunction has undergone significant shifts in understanding since the early twentieth century, with psychoanalytic notions involving unconscious conflicts, to Masters and Johnson’s direct, behavioral approach, to the biomedical era at the onset of the twenty-first century. The conceptualization of sexual dysfunctions continues to evolve, integrating a complexity of individually and culturally dependent factors and definitions. The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (10th ed.; ICD-10; World Health Organization 2016) states that a sexual dysfunction is any “change in sexual function that is viewed as unsatisfying, unrewarding, inadequate,” and the Diagnostic and...
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Fisher, M.A., Fisher, A.R. (2019). Sexual Dysfunctions in Couple and Family Therapy. In: Lebow, J.L., Chambers, A.L., Breunlin, D.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49425-8_455
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