ORIGINAL RESEARCH-PSYCHOLOGY: Psychological and Interpersonal Dimensions of Sexual Function and Dysfunction

Conclusions There is need for collaboration between healthcare practitioners from different disciplines in evaluation, treatment, and education issues surrounding sexual dysfunction. In many cases, neither psychotherapy alone nor medical intervention alone is sufficient for the lasting resolution of sexual problems. Assessment of male, female, and couples' sexual dysfunction should ideally include inquiry about: predisposing, precipitating, maintaining, and contextual factors. Treatment of lifelong and/or chronic dysfunction will be different from acquired or recent dysfunction. Research is needed to identify efficacious combined and/or integrated treatments for sexual dysfunction. Althof SE, Leiblum SR, Chevret‐Measson M, Hartmann U, Levine SB, McCabe M, Plaut M, Rodrigues O, and Wylie K. Psychological and interpersonal dimensions of sexual function and dysfunction. J Sex Med 2005;2:793-800.