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A Psychiatric Perspective on Psychogenic Erectile Dysfunction

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Medicine’s basic algorithm for determining treatment is best suited for physical diseases. When we can assume a complaint is a symptom of a specific disease we construct a differential diagnosis and use further history taking physical examination and laboratory tests to confirm the diagnosis. We then direct treatment as best we can to the underlying pathophysiology.

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  1. Department of Urology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

    Tom F. Lue MD (Professor and Vice Chairman) (Professor and Vice Chairman)

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Levine, S.B. (2004). A Psychiatric Perspective on Psychogenic Erectile Dysfunction. In: Lue, T.F. (eds) Atlas of Male Sexual Dysfunction. Current Medicine Group, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1087-7_5

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