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Sexual and gender identity disorders

MedGen UID:
452303
•Concept ID:
C0236989
•
Mental or Behavioral Dysfunction
Synonyms: Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders; sexual and gender identity disorders; sexual disorder
 
Monarch Initiative: MONDO:0000595

Definition

A category of psychiatric disorders characterized by a disturbance in sexual desire and in the psychophysiological changes that make up the sexual response cycle. [from NCI]

Professional guidelines

PubMed

The DSM diagnostic criteria for sexual masochism.
Krueger RB
Arch Sex Behav 2010 Apr;39(2):346-56. doi: 10.1007/s10508-010-9613-4. PMID: 20221792
The DSM diagnostic criteria for exhibitionism, voyeurism, and frotteurism.
Långström N
Arch Sex Behav 2010 Apr;39(2):317-24. doi: 10.1007/s10508-009-9577-4. PMID: 19924524
The DSM diagnostic criteria for pedophilia.
Blanchard R
Arch Sex Behav 2010 Apr;39(2):304-16. doi: 10.1007/s10508-009-9536-0. PMID: 19757012

Recent clinical studies

Therapy

Report of findings in a DSM-5 field trial for hypersexual disorder.
Reid RC, Carpenter BN, Hook JN, Garos S, Manning JC, Gilliland R, Cooper EB, McKittrick H, Davtian M, Fong T
J Sex Med 2012 Nov;9(11):2868-77. Epub 2012 Oct 4 doi: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2012.02936.x. PMID: 23035810
Unresolved issues in scientific sexology.
McConaghy N
Arch Sex Behav 1999 Aug;28(4):285-318. doi: 10.1023/a:1018744628161. PMID: 10553492

Clinical prediction guides

Development of schizotypal symptoms following psychiatric disorders in childhood or adolescence.
Fagel SS, Swaab H, De Sonneville LM, Van Rijn S, Pieterse JK, Scheepers F, Van Engeland H
Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2013 Nov;22(11):683-92. Epub 2013 Apr 7 doi: 10.1007/s00787-013-0409-7. PMID: 23564260
Report of findings in a DSM-5 field trial for hypersexual disorder.
Reid RC, Carpenter BN, Hook JN, Garos S, Manning JC, Gilliland R, Cooper EB, McKittrick H, Davtian M, Fong T
J Sex Med 2012 Nov;9(11):2868-77. Epub 2012 Oct 4 doi: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2012.02936.x. PMID: 23035810

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