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Sexual Anxiety in Sexual Dysfunction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Diana G. Patterson  and
Ethna C. O'Gorman
Diana G. Patterson*
Affiliation:
Tyrone and Fermanagh Hospital, Omagh, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Ethna C. O'Gorman
Affiliation:
Mental Health, Belfast City Hospital and The Queen's University of Belfast, Department of Mental Health, Belfast City Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland
*
∗ Correspondence
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Abstract

Sexual anxiety was examined in 98 patients presenting with sexual dysfunction and 68 of their partners at a psychosexual clinic using the SOMA questionnaire. All patients had raised values for heterosexual anxiety. Female partners had raised values while male partners did not. This provides further evidence for the role of heterosexual anxiety in the aetiology and treatment of sexual dysfunction.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 155 , Issue 3 , September 1989 , pp. 374 - 378
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1989 

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