Sex therapy: advances in paradigms, nomenclature, and treatment.
OBJECTIVE
The author reviews the historical paradigms that have influenced the treatment of sexual problems, changes in the diagnostic nomenclature, and recent innovations in sex therapy.


METHODS
The author reviews the literature and provides expert opinion.


RESULTS
The author gives a historical overview of how theoretical models of understanding human sexuality have influenced treatment, describes the changes in sexual dysfunction nomenclature, and focuses on the combined medical and psychological treatment of sexual dysfunction.


CONCLUSIONS
Sex therapy continues to evolve with new paradigms and definitions for understanding and diagnosing sexual problems and innovative methods of treating sexual problems.
Althof
Stanley
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Department of Psychiatry at University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in West Palm Beach, Florida, USA. Stanley.Althof@case.edu
D000328:Adult; D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D005260:Female; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D012735:Sexual Dysfunction, Physiological / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D020018:Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D009626:Terminology as Topic