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Kremska A, Wróbel R, Zych B. Prevalence of sexual dysfunctions in women in their early and middle adulthood from the Pokarpackie Voivodeship. MEDICAL SCIENCE PULSE 2022. [DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0015.8855] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Background: Sexual dysfunctions are disorders related to the physiology of sexual responses. Aim of the study: Our study aimed to assess the prevalence of sexual dysfunctions in women in their early and middle adulthood. Material and methods: The early adulthood group consisted of 125 women aged 20–30, and out of these 100 questionnaires qualified for the final analysis. The middle adulthood group consisted of 275 women aged 45–55 in which 200 complete questionnaires were analyzed. The study was conducted in 2016 using a diagnostic survey method and the author's own survey questionnaire, the Mell-Krat Scale for Women and the Female Sexual Function Index (PL-FSFI). Results: Only 38.0% of respondents from the early adulthood group and 25.0% from the middle-adult group interviewed with a gynecologist about their sex life, possible disorders, and problems. Additionally, only 1.0% of women in the middle adulthood group benefited from the advice of a sexologist. According to the interpretation of the Mell-Krat scale, 41.0% of respondents in the early adulthood group and 76.0% of women in the middle adulthood group had a suboptimal score. These results indicate the possibility of sexual response disorders. All women in the early adulthood group and middle adulthood group scored below normal on the PL-FSFI scale indicating that the respondents are at risk for sexual disorders. Conclusions: According to the PL-FSFI scale, all women in the study may be at risk of sexual disorders. According to the Mell-Krat scale, as many as ¾ of women might suffer from sexual response disorders or are at risk of sexual disorders. Taking into account the significance of a sex life, it is necessary to take action to provide women with professional medical and psychological help to improve their intimacy sphere of life.
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- Anna Kremska
- Obstetrics and Gynaecology Health Care Centre, Institute of Health Sciences, University of Rzeszow, Poland
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- Obstetrics and Gynaecology Health Care Centre, Institute of Health Sciences, University of Rzeszow, Poland
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- 1. Obstetrics and Gynaecology Health Care Centre, Institute of Health Sciences, University of Rzeszow, Poland
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Campo-Arias A, Herazo E. Innovations, Reviews and Proposals on the DSM-5: the Case of Sexual Dysfunctions, Gender Dysphoria and Paraphilic Disorders. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2018; 47:56-64. [PMID: 29428123 DOI: 10.1016/j.rcp.2016.08.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2016] [Accepted: 08/25/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Human behaviours have different meanings according to the historical moment and context. In this article sexual behaviours are taken as a category in order to analyse how psychiatric nosology is structured, as manifested in texts such as the DSM-5. The development of these diagnostic manuals are tools that are far from being free of subjectivities and interference of elements of power, expressed in the way health, illness, mental health, and mental disorders, are assumed; in short, the normal and pathological. Each new diagnosis, or even its elimination, and the recomposing of the different diagnostic criteria, especially in the field of sexual behaviour, present visions of how individual and collective human life is conceived, as well as an expression of accurate attempts to control human sexualities through the medicalisation of behaviour, coupled with moral, religious, and even legal considerations. Categories such as gender dysphoria, paraphilia or paraphilic disorders are examples of how the limits intended to establish a biomedical perspective are also incomplete and imprecise. These violate individual and social construction of sexualities and the conception of mental health, showing persistent difficulties and controversies that are evident in the way psychiatric classifications are made.
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- Adalberto Campo-Arias
- Instituto de Investigación del Comportamiento Humano (Human Behavioral Research Institute), Bogotá, Colombia; Programa de Medicina, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad del Magdalena, Santa Marta, Colombia.
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- Instituto de Investigación del Comportamiento Humano (Human Behavioral Research Institute), Bogotá, Colombia
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Merrick WA. Changes in DSM-5 Diagnostic Criteria for Paraphilic Disorders. ARCHIVES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR 2016; 45:2173-2179. [PMID: 27620321 DOI: 10.1007/s10508-016-0845-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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- William A Merrick
- Sand Ridge Secure Treatment Center Evaluation Unit, 301 Troy Dr., Building 14, Madison, WI, 53704, USA.
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Hänggi J, Bellwald D, Brugger P. Shape alterations of basal ganglia and thalamus in xenomelia. Neuroimage Clin 2016; 11:760-769. [PMID: 27330976 PMCID: PMC4909827 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2016.05.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2016] [Revised: 05/06/2016] [Accepted: 05/27/2016] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Xenomelia is a rare condition characterized by the persistent desire for the amputation of physically healthy limbs. Associations with morphological alterations such as reduced cortical thickness and surface area. Nothing is known, however, about the potential involvement of subcortical structures. The thalamus and basal ganglia process, relay, and integrate sensorimotor information and are involved in the preparation and execution of movements. Moreover, both of these structures house somatotopic representations of all body parts. We therefore investigated subcortical correlates of xenomelia by assessing basal ganglia and thalamus by means of vertex-wise shape analyses. For that purpose, we compared the shape of the thalamus, putamen, caudate nucleus, and the pallidum in 13 men suffering from xenomelia, all desiring a leg amputation, compared to 13 healthy control men. We hypothesised that the target leg is misrepresented in subcortical structures of individuals with xenomelia, especially in locations with a somatotopic representation. Shape analyses showed thinning of bilateral dorsomedial putamina, left ventromedial caudate nucleus and left medial pallidum associated with xenomelia. This was accompanied by thickening of bilateral lateral pallida and the left frontolateral thalamus. These shape differences were mainly located in sensorimotor areas of somatotopic leg representations. The present study provides strong evidence for shape differences in striatal, pallidal, and thalamic subregions housing subcortical body part representations. It adds to previously described neural correlates of a condition one can barely empathize with and invites future connectivity analyses in cortico-subcortical networks.
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- Jürgen Hänggi
- Division Neuropsychology, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
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- Division Neuropsychology, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
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- Neuropsychology Unit, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland; Center for Integrative Human Physiology (ZIHP), University of Zurich, Switzerland.
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In the DSM-5, there has been a change in the diagnosis for transpeople of all ages from Gender Identity Disorder (GID) to Gender Dysphoria (GD), in part to better indicate the distress that transpeople may experience when their gender identity feels incongruent. The Workgroup for Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders, chaired by Kenneth J. Zucker, was employed by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to update the DSM-5's GID diagnosis reflecting contemporary scientific knowledge. Additionally, in a pre-publication report to the APA, members of the Workgroup suggested that they would also be concerned with the destigmatization of transpeople while preserving a diagnosis that medical insurance companies would accept for issuing payments for transitioning treatments (Drescher, 2013). The aims of this article are, firstly, to question whether changing the diagnosis lessens the stigmatization of transpeople. I will suggest that the semantic change from GID to GD marks "inverted" gendered expressions as pathological and, thus, continues to stigmatize transpeople. Secondly, the article explores the development of the GD diagnosis, and illustrates how the scientific data this were founded on are contentious. The article then demonstrates how the trans anti-pathologization movement has challenged the perceived pathologizing effects of the DSM-5 classification of GD. The article examines a selection of Western transgender community advocates' websites, forums, and blogs. From these sources, the article then explores the different narratives of transpeople and political groups who offer details of their praxis, and evidences how the trans anti-pathologization advocates use the available science and human rights discourses to contest the role of psychiatry in the treatment of transpeople.
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- Zowie Davy
- School of Health and Social Care, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, LN6 7TS, UK,
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW The experience of ourselves as an embodied agent with a first-person perspective is referred to as 'bodily self'. We present a selective overview of relevant clinical and experimental studies. RECENT FINDINGS Sharing multisensory body space with others can be observed in patients with structurally altered bodies (amputations, congenital absence of limbs), with altered functionality after hemiplegia, such as denial of limb ownership (somatoparaphrenia) and with alterations in bodily self-consciousness on the level of the entire body (e.g. in autoscopic phenomena). In healthy participants, the mechanisms underpinning body ownership and observer perspective are empirically investigated by multisensory stimulation paradigms to alter the bodily self. The resulting illusions have promoted the understanding of complex disturbances of the bodily self, such as out-of-body experiences. We discuss the role of interoception in differentiating between self and others and review current advances in the study of body integrity identity disorder, a condition shaped as much by neurological as by social-psychological factors. SUMMARY We advocate a social neuroscience approach to the bodily self that takes into account the interactions between body, mind and society and might help close the divide between neurology and psychiatry.
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Ross CA. Commentary: Problems with the sexual disorders sections of DSM-5. JOURNAL OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE 2015; 24:195-201. [PMID: 25747420 DOI: 10.1080/10538712.2015.997411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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There are a number of problems with the sexual disorders sections of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition. These problems must be understood in a historical context, namely the evolution of criteria for psychosexual disorders from DSM-II (1968) to DSM-5 (2013). There are many inconsistencies in the DSM-5 criteria for different sexual disorders. Given these inconsistencies--and the history of diagnostic criteria for homosexuality and gender identity disorder from DSM-II to DSM-5--it is possible that, like homosexuality, DSM-5 gender dysphoria could disappear from future editions of the manual. Even if that does not happen, there are numerous problems with the DSM-5 sexual disorders that require attention.
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- Colin A Ross
- a The Colin A. Ross Institute for Psychological Trauma , Richardson , Texas , USA
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Dowsett GW. The price of pulchritude, the cost of concupiscence: how to have sex in late modernity. CULTURE, HEALTH & SEXUALITY 2014; 17 Suppl 1:S5-S19. [PMID: 25270727 DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2014.959563] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Research and scholarship on sexuality has grown exponentially over the last 60 years; but what is this 'sexuality' that so fascinates us. During those 60 years, three academic traditions or paradigms have emerged and evolved to provide that main ways we understand sexuality. These are: (1) sexology; (2) sex research; and (3) critical sexuality studies. These paradigms do not always agree; at times, they are incommensurable in the picture of sexuality they paint. However, they each affect how sexuality is researched and written about, and how it is understood in the popular imagination. After discussing these paradigms, attention is focused on the contemporary challenges facing the third paradigm: critical sexuality studies. The contribution of sexology and sex research to these challenges is noted. Three key issues are discussed: the body; how we commonly understand sexuality; and the commodification of sexuality in late modernity.
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- Gary W Dowsett
- a Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University , Melbourne , Australia
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Balon R. Politics of diagnostic criteria: specifiers of pedophilic disorder in DSM-5. ARCHIVES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR 2014; 43:1235-1236. [PMID: 24481498 DOI: 10.1007/s10508-013-0246-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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- Richard Balon
- Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences and Anesthesiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Tolan Park Building, 3rd Floor, 3901 Chrysler Service Dr., Detroit, MI, 48201, USA,
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McManus MA, Hargreaves P, Rainbow L, Alison LJ. Paraphilias: definition, diagnosis and treatment. F1000PRIME REPORTS 2013; 5:36. [PMID: 24049640 PMCID: PMC3769077 DOI: 10.12703/p5-36] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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There is a great deal of controversy concerning paraphilia, and defining what is normal versus deviant or disordered, given that this is to some degree dependent on cultural views of acceptability. In this article, we outline these issues and describe recent progress in diagnosing and treating paraphilias.
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- Michelle A. McManus
- School of Forensic and Investigative Sciences, University of Central LancashirePreston, Lancashire, PR1 2HEUK
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- School of Forensic and Investigative Sciences, University of Central LancashirePreston, Lancashire, PR1 2HEUK
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- School of Forensic and Investigative Sciences, University of Central LancashirePreston, Lancashire, PR1 2HEUK
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- Centre for Investigative Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Health and Society, University of LiverpoolEleanor Rathbone Building, Bedford Street South, Liverpool, Merseyside, L69 7ZA
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