Psychosexual dysfunction


  • Causes & risk factors
    • Marital/relational stress, conflict
    • Major psychosocial trauma (loss of job or loved one)
    • Severe medical illness (stroke, myocardial infarction)
    • Mood, anxiety disorders
  • Features
    • Abrupt onset, clear precipitating event or stressor
    • Situational erectile dysfunction (normal nocturnal/nonsexual erections)
    • Impaired or premature orgasm
  • Management
    • Cognitive-behavioral therapy
    • Couples/relational therapy