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Sexual Dysfunction

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This chapter will review the history and current status of behavioral treatment focused on problems of sexual functioning in heterosexual couples. This type of treatment, once a secondary component of marital therapy, individual psychotherapy, and sex education, has come to be a more-or-less independent type of behaviorally oriented treatment, popularly referred to as “sex therapy.”

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Medical College of Pennsylvania at EPPI, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19129, USA

    Alan S. Bellack

  2. Department of Psychiatry Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburg School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15213, USA

    Michel Hersen

  3. Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 06520, USA

    Alan E. Kazdin

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LoPiccolo, J. (1990). Sexual Dysfunction. In: Bellack, A.S., Hersen, M., Kazdin, A.E. (eds) International Handbook of Behavior Modification and Therapy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0523-1_26

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