Volume : 2, Issue : 5, MAY 2016

A CHALLENGE FOR THE CONTEMPORARY GYNECOLOGICAL DIAGNOSTICS

Beata R. Wróbel

Abstract

Pain-related sexual disorders in women are included in three classifications,  i.e. 1. International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Problems  (ICD – 10) by the World Health Organization, 2. American Foundation of Urological Disease (AFUD) by the American Urological Association, and 3. The American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR and prior thereto) [1]. Pain-related sexual disorders in women have not been associated with gynecology and obstetrics up to modern times.

At present, the situation seems to undergo a fundamental change due to the DSM-V Classification published in 2013. Dyspareunia and vaginismus are classified jointly there and described as genito-pelvic pain disorders / penetration disorders.

Keywords

vaginismus, dyspareunia, genito-pelvic pain disorders/penetration disorders, DSM – V.

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