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Traditionally, the urologist and the mental health specialist have referred patients to one another on an as-needed basis. Therapists were not well acquainted with the medical factors causing erectile dysfunction, and urologists overlooked psychological forces that contributed to the dysfunction. Increasingly, there is a trend toward the establishment of multidisciplinary teams where urologists and mental health clinicians can work in tandem to address the complex interplay of biology and psychology.1
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Althof, S.E., Levine, S.B. (1997). Psychological Aspects of Erectile Dysfunction. In: Hellstrom, W.J.G. (eds) Male Infertility and Sexual Dysfunction. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1848-7_34
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