Sexual desire and arousal disorders in women

Advances in Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue , 2011, Pages 16-34

  Laan, Ellen ^a   Both, Stephanie ^b  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; MOTIVATION; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOSEXUAL DISORDER; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL COUNSELING; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION;

COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMANS; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SEX COUNSELING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 82755183580     PISSN: 00653268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000328806     Document Type: Article

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