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Comment
. 2018 Jun 1;7(2):208-210.
doi: 10.1556/2006.7.2018.51. Epub 2018 Jun 13.

Promoting educational, classification, treatment, and policy initiatives

Mateusz Gola  1   2 , Marc N Potenza  3   4
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Promoting educational, classification, treatment, and policy initiatives

Mateusz Gola et al. J Behav Addict. .

Abstract

The letter by Kraus et al. (2018) published recently in World Psychiatry presents diagnostic criteria for compulsive sexual behaviors (CSBs). Here, we discuss the potential impact of including CSB disorder in ICD-11 for four areas: educational efforts related to CSB (for both clinicians and patients), investigation of underlying mechanisms and subtypes, development of personalized treatment frameworks, and answering socially important questions and advancing important prevention efforts and effective policies. Each of these four areas has their own challenges that should be addressed, and we briefly describe and discuss them. We hope that this information will help continue a dialog and provide a framework for moving forward in this area.

Keywords: ICD-11; compulsive sexual behavior; hypersexual disorder; problematic pornography use; sex addiction.

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  • Compulsive sexual behaviour disorder in the ICD-11.
    Kraus SW, Krueger RB, Briken P, First MB, Stein DJ, Kaplan MS, Voon V, Abdo CHN, Grant JE, Atalla E, Reed GM. Kraus SW, et al. World Psychiatry. 2018 Feb;17(1):109-110. doi: 10.1002/wps.20499. World Psychiatry. 2018. PMID: 29352554 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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