Vol 9, No 1 (2011)
Review paper
Published online: 2011-11-18
Psychosexual immaturity as a diagnostic term
Seksuologia Polska 2011;9(1):38-42.
Abstract
Psychosexual immaturity is commonly understood as developmental disorder, and inability to correct fulfilling
of sexual role is thought for its essence. Therefore it is particular form of sex role disorder. The term
“psychosexual immaturity” doesn’t occur as a diagnostic category in ICD-10 and DSM-IV-TR. Despite this it
is commonly used in professional literature and clinical practice. To improve the accuracy of application of
this term it is necessary to operationalize it and, therefore, put a new diagnostic category into the classification
of disorders. The aim of this paper is to suggest particulars indicators of so understood psychosexual
immaturity. It has been made on different three levels, by using three different criteria: developmental, functional
and symptomatic.
Polish Sexology 2011; 9 (1): 38–42
Polish Sexology 2011; 9 (1): 38–42
Keywords: psychosexual immaturitysexual developmentsexual disorderssex roleclassification of disordersdiagnosis
