ABSTRACT
Historically the psychological and biomedical approaches were opposed, and sometimes they clashed. The former affirmed that it would be reductive to treat a woman affected by sexual dysfunction pharmacologically; the latter, instead, considered women ’ s problems as a therapeutical opportunity. On the other hand, today, sexual psychotherapists understand the importance of an integrative approach and try to use short-term therapy aimed at stimulating behavioral change. 6
The behavioral divergence in the field of the sexual life between men and women seems to be more subtle today. Men are now treated with drugs or psychotherapy for certain events that were once considered as being part of the female world only: fear, dyspareunia, hypoactive desire, and even headaches are just some of these problems. As a demonstration of how the somatic component can influence the generation of unease or sexual dysfunction, the most recent classifications focus on the concept of stress. 7 According to these, a condition of ‘unease ’ is considered a disorder whenever it produces stress for the woman who suffers from this condition.
