[Female sexuality and its disorders from the psychological viewpoint].
Female sexuality is determined to a far greater extent by the woman's emotional receptiveness to sexual feelings than by her physiological reactions. Concerning sexual symptoms, female patients suffer much more from a lack of sexual desire and from a deficit in sexually stimulating feelings and sexual pleasure than from insufficient genital functions. The following sexual symptoms are presented: sexual arousal disorders, orgasm disorders, vaginismus, dyspareunia, sexual desire disorders, sexual aversion/sexual phobia. Sex consultation and sex therapy are recommended as preferential treatment options.
Heiser
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Arbeitsbereich Klinische Psychologie, Abteilung Klinische Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover. Heiser.Kristina@MH-Hannover.de
Rüffer-Hesse
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C
Kloth
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Hartmann
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D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007989:Libido; D020018:Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy