Dyspareunia: Causes and Treatments (Including Provoked Vestibulodynia)

Chronic Pelvic Pain

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 125-136

  Meana, Marta ^a   Binik, Yitzchak M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

"due to combined factors"; Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT); Due to psychological factors; Dyspareunia: causes and treatments; Provoked vestibulodynia PVD

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870334724     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444391855.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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