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Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders

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This chapter reviews how sexuality, sexual function, and behaviour manifest in patients with psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia spectrum disorders, delusional disorder, and psychotic disorders secondary to other mental or medical conditions. The chapter also presents an overview about polymorphic sexual content in psychopathology such as a hallucinatory-delusional condition with content theme about love, jealousy, sexual acts, genitals, sexual identity, as well as hypersexual behaviour, paraphilic behaviour, and sexual dysfunctions. In addition, the main principles of diagnostic and management strategies such as the stabilisation of the psychotic condition, the assessment of sexual function, psychosexual counselling, and the adjustment of disorder-specific treatment are analysed here.

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Jonusiene, G. (2021). Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders. In: Lew-Starowicz, M., Giraldi, A., Krüger, T. (eds) Psychiatry and Sexual Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52298-8_15

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