Compulsive Sexual Behavior: Phenomenology and Epidemiology

The Oxford Handbook of Impulse Control Disorders

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Schreiber, Liana R N ^a   Odlaug, Brian L ^a   Grant, Jon E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Comorobity; Compulsive sexual behavior; Epidemiology; Phenomenology; Theoretical models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923400267     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195389715.013.0063     Document Type: Chapter

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