Sexual resilience in couples

Couple Resilience: Emerging Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 63-82

  Back, Andrea M ^a   Robinson, John W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adjustment; Intimate relationships; Prostate cancer; Sexual adaptation; Sexual models; Sexual motivation; Sexual resilience; Sexual values

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942865193     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-9909-6_4     Document Type: Chapter

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