Fear Learning in Genital Pain: Toward a Biopsychosocial, Ecologically Valid Research and Treatment Model

Figures & data

Figure 1. Anxiety-pain circle by Spano and Lamont (1975) and ter Kuile and Weijenborg (2006).

Figure 2. Sexual arousal responding (Bindra, 1974; Dewitte, 2014; Janssen et al., 2000; Toates, 2009).

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