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The Behavioural Treatment of Sexual Dysfunction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Keith Hawton
Keith Hawton*
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University Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX
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The past 12 years have witnessed the establishment of behavioural methods of treating sexual problems based on the principles developed by Masters and Johnson (1970). Such methods, with some modifications, have proved to be well suited to the needs of our health service (Bancroft, 1975). It is an expedient time to take stock with regard to the current situation in this field, particularly the extent to which treatment facilities are meeting patients' needs, the type of methods being used, and how successful they are. In view of the rapid developments that have occurred in sex therapy it is also appropriate to consider what are now the oustanding clinical and research needs in this area.

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Symposium on Sexual Dysfunction
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 140 , Issue 1 , January 1982 , pp. 94 - 101
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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