Sexual Therapy in the Age of Pharmacotherapy

Abstract Combining medical and psychological interventions for individuals or couples with sexual dysfunction offers an alternative approach to therapy that enhances efficacy, treatment and relational satisfaction, and decreases patient discontinuation. By combining the power of both and changing the way we deliver psychological care, patients may, in the long-term, derive greater benefit. I review the literature on combined therapy and propose one paradigm for combined therapy. This paradigm serves only as a model to be improved upon or extensively modified. Such combined treatment models must be conceptually sound and be subjected to reproducibility and sophisticated analysis.