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      [Biopsychosocial understanding of human sexuality. Prerequisite for diagnostics and treatment in sexual medicine].

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      Der Urologe. Ausg. A
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          Sexual medicine is a subdiscipline of clinical medicine that deals with human sexuality and disorders. Sexuality eludes a unilateral definition. As a biologically, psychologically, and socially determined experience dimension of the human being, its individual form depends on biological factors and developments in the person's life. Moreover, sexuality exhibits different dimensions--lust, reproduction, and relationship--that are indeed closely interrelated. For this reason, directing therapy at only one of these dimensions is not adequate. All human beings are programmed toward fulfillment of elementary biopsychosocial needs such as acceptance, closeness, warmth, and security. If these basic needs are shortchanged in terms of fulfillment, all sorts of restrictions in the quality of life ensue, even to the point of resultant disorders of sexual function. Treatment then approaches the roots when it does not center on the sexual dysfunction but rather on the underlying frustrated relationship of the partners. Syndyastic sexual therapy is an important treatment method in sexual medicine.

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          Journal
          Urologe A
          Der Urologe. Ausg. A
          Springer Nature
          0340-2592
          0340-2592
          Aug 2006
          : 45
          : 8
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Institut für Sexualwissenschaft und Sexualmedizin, Zentrum für Human- und Gesundheitswissenschaften, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Mitte, Luisenstrasse 57, 10117, Berlin. klaus.beier@charite.de
          Article
          10.1007/s00120-006-1091-x
          16830127
          04f24fa5-662e-4225-89b4-c417e2356f56
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