Psychiatric Disorders and Sexual Functioning
Abstract
The responses of 18 psychiatrists and 122 psychiatric inpatients to a questionnaire survey at a Boston hospital showed that most psychiatrists and 20 to 50 percent of the patients believed that sexual functioning might contribute to psychiatric disorders, that most psychiatric disorders might interfere with sexual functioning, and that sexual activity might retard recovery. The authors stress the need for more precise, hard data and clearer definitions of the physiological mechanisms involved in various sexual patterns and psychiatric disorders.
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