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Should dyspareunia be retained as a sexual dysfunction in DSM-V? A painful classification decisionYitzchak M Binik
Department of Psychology, McGill University, and Sex and Couple Therapy Service, McGill University Health Center RVH, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Arch Sex Behav 34:11-21. 2005..The reconceptualization of dyspareunia as a pain disorder rather than as a sexual dysfunction has important implications for the understanding and treatment of this prevalent but neglected women's health problem...- Effects of sexual arousal on genital and non-genital sensation: a comparison of women with vulvar vestibulitis syndrome and healthy controlsKimberley A Payne
Department of Psychology, McGill University, 1205 Dr Penfield Avenue, Montreal, H3A 1B1, Quebec, Canada
Arch Sex Behav 36:289-300. 2007..Lack of subjective sexual arousal, however, may yet be implicated in vulvar pain during intercourse... - Psychosexual characteristics of vestibulodynia couples: partner solicitousness and hostility are associated with painMylène Desrosiers
Department of Sexology, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Sex Med 5:418-27. 2008..In particular, data concerning relationship characteristics and psychosexual functioning of partners of these women are scarce. Moreover, no research to date has examined the role of the partner in vestibulodynia... - Sexual dysfunction and pelvic pain in men: a male sexual pain disorder?Seth N P Davis
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Sex Marital Ther 35:182-205. 2009..A critical review of the literature is presented, with specific attention to co-morbid sexual dysfunction. Recommendations for future multidisciplinary research and clinical work are also made... - Tenderness as measured by pressure pain thresholds extends beyond the pelvis in chronic pelvic pain syndrome in menSeth N P Davis
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
J Sex Med 8:232-9. 2011..However, new clinical phenotyping demonstrates pelvic tenderness to be an important component of UCPPS. Unfortunately, mechanisms underlying tenderness remain to be understood, and tenderness itself has not been well quantified... - An evaluation of the validity of thermography as a physiological measure of sexual arousal in a non-university adult sampleTuuli M Kukkonen
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 1B1, Canada
Arch Sex Behav 39:861-73. 2010..Further development should assess the potential of thermography as a tool for the diagnosis and treatment evaluation of sexual arousal difficulties and for studying sex differences... - Tender point examination in women with vulvar vestibulitis syndromeCaroline F Pukall
Department of Psychology, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Clin J Pain 22:601-9. 2006.... - Use of pelvic floor ultrasound to assess pelvic floor muscle function in Urological Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome in menSeth N Davis
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
J Sex Med 8:3173-80. 2011..Pelvic floor ultrasound is a noninvasive, reliable, and relatively simple method to assess PFM morphology and function and can be assessed by the anorectal angle (ARA) and levator plate angle (LPA)... - History of sexual and physical abuse in women with dyspareunia: association with pain, psychosocial adjustment, and sexual functioningBianca Leclerc
Department of Psychology, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Sex Med 7:971-80. 2010..Thus, the aim of this study is to determine the relation between a history of sexual and physical abuse and a series of pain, psychological, dyadic, and sexual functioning variables in a sample of women with dyspareunia... - Challenging atrophied perspectives on postmenopausal dyspareunia: a systematic description and synthesis of clinical pain characteristicsAlina Kao
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Sex Marital Ther 38:128-50. 2012..The results support the hypothesis that, similarly to premenopausal dyspareunia, postmenopausal dyspareunia is a heterogeneous condition... - When sex hurts, anxiety and fear orient attention towards painKimberley A Payne
Department of Psychology, McGill University, 1205 Dr Penfield Avenue, Montreal, QC, Canada QC H3A 1B1
Eur J Pain 9:427-36. 2005..This effect was predicted by state and trait anxiety and fear of pain. According to these data, treament strategies for VVS should target anxiety and fear in addition to sensory systems... - Thermography as a physiological measure of sexual arousal in both men and womenTuuli M Kukkonen
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Sex Med 4:93-105. 2007..Current physiological measures of sexual arousal are intrusive, hard to compare between genders, and quantitatively problematic... - A new instrument for pain assessment in vulvar vestibulitis syndromeCaroline F Pukall
Department of Psychology, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
J Sex Marital Ther 30:69-78. 2004..g., burning). This novel device has several important implications for genital pain measurement in women who suffer from urogenital pain... - Surgical and behavioral treatments for vestibulodynia: two-and-one-half year follow-up and predictors of outcomeSophie Bergeron
Department of Sexology, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Obstet Gynecol 111:159-66. 2008..A second goal of the present study was to identify predictors of outcome... - Dyspareunia Looks Sexy on First But How Much Pain Will It Take for It to Score? A Reply to My Critics Concerning the DSM Classification of Dyspareunia as a Sexual DysfunctionYitzchak M Binik
Department of Psychology, McGill University, and Sex and Couple Therapy Service, McGill University Health Center (RVH, Montreal, Quebec
Arch Sex Behav 34:63-7. 2005 - Persistent genital and pelvic pain after childbirthLaurel Q P Paterson
Department of Psychology, Laboratory for the Biopsychosocial Study of Sexuality, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Sex Med 6:215-21. 2009..The few published studies of such pain beyond 1 year postpartum have focused primarily on the perineum and have not assessed pain onset... - Pain measurement in vulvodyniaCaroline F Pukall
Department of Psychology, McGill University, 1205 Dr Penfield Ave, Montreal, QC H3A 1B1, Canada
J Sex Marital Ther 29:111-20. 2003..To date, this approach has been promising for the differential diagnosis, classification, and understanding of vulvar pain conditions... - Vestibular tactile and pain thresholds in women with vulvar vestibulitis syndromeCaroline F Pukall
Department of Psychology, McGill University, 1205 Dr Penfield Avenue, Montreal, Canada
Pain 96:163-75. 2002..The data imply that VVS may reflect a specific pathological process in the vestibular region, superimposed on systemic hypersensitivity to tactile and pain stimuli... - The psychosocial outcomes of total and subtotal hysterectomy: A randomized controlled trialNicole Flory
Department of Behavioral Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, USA
J Sex Med 3:483-91. 2006..Current controversies involve the adverse effects of hysterectomy on women's psychosocial functioning and whether subtotal as opposed to total hysterectomy mitigates these effects... - Repeated vulvovaginal fungal infections cause persistent pain in a mouse model of vulvodyniaMelissa A Farmer
Department of Psychology, McGill University, 1205 Doctor Penfield Avenue, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1B1, Canada
Sci Transl Med 3:101ra91. 2011..Our data show that infection can cause persistent pain long after its resolution and that recurrent yeast infection replicates important features of human provoked vulvodynia in the mouse... - Psychosocial effects of hysterectomy: literature reviewNicole Flory
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Psychosom Res 59:117-29. 2005..CONCLUSIONS: More research is necessary to establish which patients may benefit most and which may not. Directions for future research are discussed... - The DSM diagnostic criteria for vaginismusYitzchak M Binik
Department of Psychology, McGill University, 1205 Dr Penfield Ave, Montreal, QC H3A 1B1, Canada
Arch Sex Behav 39:278-91. 2010.... - Vaginismus: a review of the literature on the classification/diagnosis, etiology and treatmentMarie André Lahaie
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Womens Health (Lond Engl) 6:705-19. 2010..This article suggests that vaginismus cannot be easily differentiated from dyspareunia and should be treated from a multidisciplinary point of view... - Convergent and discriminant validity of clitoral color Doppler ultrasonography as a measure of female sexual arousalTuuli M Kukkonen
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Sex Marital Ther 32:281-7. 2006..Furthermore, there were no significant correlations between clitoral blood-flow measures and subjective sexual arousal. Additional research is required to establish the specificity of ultrasonography as a measure of sexual arousal... - The DSM diagnostic criteria for dyspareuniaYitzchak M Binik
Department of Psychology, McGill University, 1205 Dr Penfield Avenue, Montreal, QC H3A 1B1, Canada
Arch Sex Behav 39:292-303. 2010.... - Hypnotherapy as a treatment for vulvar vestibulitis syndrome: a case reportKristina Kandyba
Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Sex Marital Ther 29:237-42. 2003..Despite having persistent pain during intercourse for 3 years with several partners, she experienced no more pain following treatment, and remained pain free at a 12-month follow up... - The future of sex therapy: specialization or marginalization?Yitzchak M Binik
Department of Psychology, McGill University, 1205 Dr Penfield Ave, Montreal, QC H3A 1B1, Canada
Arch Sex Behav 38:1016-27. 2009..It is suggested that the treatment of sexual dysfunction be integrated into the general psychotherapy enterprise and into a multidisciplinary biopsychosocial framework... - Physical therapy for vulvar vestibulitis syndrome: a retrospective studySophie Bergeron
Department of Sexology, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, C P 8888, Succursale Centre Ville, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3C 3P8
J Sex Marital Ther 28:183-92. 2002..Successful patients were significantly less educated than nonsuccessful patients. Findings demonstrate that physical therapy is a promising treatment modality for dyspareunia associated with vulvar vestibulitis... - The female sexual pain disorders: genital pain or sexual dysfunction?Yitzchak M Binik
Department of Psychology, McGill University and Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Arch Sex Behav 31:425-9. 2002..It also suggests new approaches to research and treatment. Data from diagnostic, etiologic, and therapeutic studies will be presented to illustrate these points... - Etiological correlates of vaginismus: sexual and physical abuse, sexual knowledge, sexual self-schema, and relationship adjustmentElke D Reissing
School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
J Sex Marital Ther 29:47-59. 2003..Lack of support for traditionally held hypotheses concerning etiological correlates of vaginismus and the relationship between vaginismus and dyspareunia are discussed... - Vaginal spasm, pain, and behavior: an empirical investigation of the diagnosis of vaginismusElke D Reissing
School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Arch Sex Behav 33:5-17. 2004..Pain and fear of pain, pelvic floor dysfunction, and behavioral avoidance need to be included in a multidimensional reconceptualization of vaginismus... - Reviving the labial thermistor clipKimberley A Payne
Arch Sex Behav 35:111-3. 2006 - Convergence of health ratings across nephrologists, nurses, and patients with end-stage renal diseaseGerald M Devins
University Health Network, Toronto General Hospital, CW2 300, 200 Elizabeth Street, Toronto, M5G 2X4 Ontario, Canada
J Clin Epidemiol 56:326-31. 2003..The health rating is reliable and relates to the current status of the patient. Performance was superior for the combined score that incorporated ratings by patients, nurses, and nephrologists... - Do all orgasms feel alike? Evaluating a two-dimensional model of the orgasm experience across gender and sexual contextKenneth Mah
Psychosocial Oncology Program, Princess Margaret Hospital, 610 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 2M9 Canada
J Sex Res 39:104-13. 2002.... - Neural correlates of painful genital touch in women with vulvar vestibulitis syndromeCaroline F Pukall
Department of Psychology, Queen s University, Humphrey Hall, 62 Arch Street, Kingston, Ont, Canada K7L 3N6
Pain 115:118-27. 2005.... - Are orgasms in the mind or the body? Psychosocial versus physiological correlates of orgasmic pleasure and satisfactionKenneth Mah
Behavioural Sciences Research Division, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J Sex Marital Ther 31:187-200. 2005..These findings emphasize the importance of psychosocial determinants of the orgasm experience... - Vulvodynia: a state-of-the-art consensus on definitions, diagnosis and managementGloria A Bachmann
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
J Reprod Med 51:447-56. 2006..The consensus panel also identified key topics and issues forfurther research, including the role of inflammatory mechanisms and genetic factors and psychosexual contributors...