THE ROLE OF THE SEXOLOGIST IN UROLOGY

Most urological problems have sexual sequelae. The majority of unexpla ined urological symptoms have a psychosexual background, many urologic al interventions have sexual consequences and the urologist is often c onfronted with patients having sexual dysfunctions. For the urologist it is therefore necessary to learn basic sexological skills and to imp lement cooperaration with specialists in sexual medicine in daily urol ogical practice in order to prevent somatization of psychosexual probl ems, to provide effective care and to improve patient compliance.