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Article: Weeks, Gerald R., & Gambescia, Nancy. Hypoactive Sexual Desire: Integrating Sex and Couple Therapy.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
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- Adolescence
- Article date:
- June 22, 2003
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New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2002. 252pp. $30.00 (h).
The lack of sexual desire, known clinically as hypoactive sexual desire (HSD), is generally recognized as the most common sexual problem in America. Over 50% of couples presenting for treatment will complain of insufficient sexual desire in one or both partners. Thus, all clinicians are very likely to encounter HSD in both individual and couple therapy practices. Here, Gerald Weeks and Nancy Gambescia present a treatment model for HSD based on the integration of medical and psychological interventions. This book provides clinicians with the theoretical and practical tools to understand and treat this ...