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Sexual Dysfunctions Among Women Clients Who Were Sexually Abused in Childhood

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Derek Jehu
Derek Jehu
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Department of Psychology, University of Leicester
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Abstract

In a series of 51 previously sexually abused women who entered therapy 94% were found to be sexually dysfunctional. It is proposed that these dysfunctions may stem from certain mood disturbances, interpersonal problems, and sexual stresses, that are associated with the earlier traumatic experience of sexual abuse and its surrounding circumstances.

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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , January 1989 , pp. 53 - 70
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1989

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