Robert Taylor Segraves (born 1941) is an American

psychiatrist A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in psychiatry. Psychiatrists are physicians who evaluate patients to determine whether their symptoms are the result of a physical illness, a combination of physical and mental ailments or strictly ...

who works on

sexual dysfunction Sexual dysfunction is difficulty experienced by an individual or partners during any stage of normal sexual activity, including physical pleasure, desire, preference, arousal, or orgasm. The World Health Organization defines sexual dysfunction ...

and its pharmacologic causes and treatments.

Career

Segraves attended the

Baylor School Baylor School, commonly called Baylor, is a private school, private, coeducational college-preparatory school in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1893, the school's current campus comprises 690 acres and enrolls students in grad ...

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and graduated with a

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from

Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University (informally Vandy or VU) is a private university, private research university in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1873, it was named in honor of shipping and railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provide ...

in 1963 and would later receive a

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from the same institution. He completed his residency in psychiatry at the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, or UChi) is a Private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its main campus is in the Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, Chic ...

and earned a Ph.D. from the

University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a collegiate university, federal Public university, public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The ...

. Segraves is professor of psychiatry at

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (CWRU SOM, CaseMed) is the medical school of Case Western Reserve University, a private research university in Cleveland, Ohio. It is the largest biomedical research center in Ohio, and is primar ...

and chair of the department of psychiatry at

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medical center. He was a member of the

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders The ''Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders'' (''DSM''; latest edition: ''DSM-5-TR'', published in March 2022) is a publication by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) for the classification of mental disorders using a com ...

task forces on sexual disorders for the DSM-III-R, DSM-IV and DSM-IV-TR editions. He is editor of the ''Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy'' and on the editorial board of the ''International Journal of Impotence Research''. Much of Segraves' work focuses on female sexual arousal disorder (FSAD). Noting that "somehow depression and

libido In psychology, libido (; ) is psychic drive or energy, usually conceived of as sexual in nature, but sometimes conceived of as including other forms of desire. The term ''libido'' was originally developed by Sigmund Freud, the pioneering origin ...

are interconnected,"Ranii, David (April 24, 2001). GlaxoSmithKline Tests Anti-Depressant for Libido Enhancement Qualities. ''

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''. Segraves has examined the interplay between

antidepressant Antidepressants are a class of medications used to treat major depressive disorder, anxiety disorders, chronic pain, and addiction. Common side effects of antidepressants include Xerostomia, dry mouth, weight gain, dizziness, headaches, akathi ...

s and libido.Foy, Nicole (May 15, 1999). Anti-depressant emerges as dampener of sex drive. ''

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'' He has conducted

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and

clinical trial Clinical trials are prospective biomedical or behavioral research studies on human subject research, human participants designed to answer specific questions about biomedical or behavioral interventions, including new treatments (such as novel v ...

s on drugs that show promise in improving female sexual response, including

bupropion Bupropion, formerly called amfebutamone, and sold under the brand name Wellbutrin among others, is an atypical antidepressant that is indicated in the treatment of major depressive disorder, seasonal affective disorder, and to support smo ...

.Beckman, Mary (September 20, 2006). Quest for the little pink pill; An antidepressant, a topical oil and a supplement: Could one be a female Viagra? ''

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'' Segraves was section co-editor with Stephen B. Levine for the section on sexual and

gender identity disorder Gender dysphoria (GD) is the distress a person experiences due to inconsistency between their gender identitytheir personal sense of their own genderand their sex assignment, sex assigned at birth. The term replaced the previous diagnostic lab ...

s in ''Treatments of Psychiatric Disorders'' by

Glen Gabbard Glen Owens Gabbard (born 1949) is an American psychiatrist known for authoring professional teaching texts for the field. He is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, and is also training and supervising ...

. Notable contributors included

Martin Kafka Martin Paul Kafka (born 1947) is an American psychiatrist best known for his work on sex offenders, paraphilias and what he calls "paraphilia-related disorders" such as sex addiction and hypersexuality. Career Kafka earned his undergraduate deg ...

(

paraphilia A paraphilia is an experience of recurring or intense sexual arousal to atypical objects, places, situations, fantasies, behaviors, or individuals. It has also been defined as a sexual interest in anything other than a legally consenting human ...

s) and

Kenneth Zucker Kenneth J. Zucker (; born 1950) is an American-Canadian psychologist and sexologist known for the living in your own skin model, a form of conversion therapy targeted towards pre-pubertal children with the goal of making their gender identity ...

(

gender identity disorder in children Gender dysphoria (GD) in children, also known as gender incongruence (GI) of childhood, is a formal diagnosis for distress (gender dysphoria) caused by incongruence between assigned sex and gender identity in some pre-pubescent transgender and ...

and adolescents).Segraves RT, Levine SB (section editors). Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders. In Gabbard GO, ed. (2001). ''Treatments of Psychiatric Disorders.''

Selected publications

*Segraves RT (1982). ''Marital Therapy: A Combined Psychodynamic-behavioral Approach.'' Plenum Medical Book Co. *Segraves RT, Haeberle EJ (1984). ''Emerging Dimensions of Sexology: Selected Papers from the Proceedings of the Sixth World Congress of Sexology.'' Greenwood Pub Group *Segraves RT, Schoenberg HW (1985). ''Diagnosis and Treatment of Erectile Disturbances: A Guide for Clinicians.'' Plenum Medical Book Co. *Basson R, Berman J, Burnett A, Derogatis L, Ferguson D, Fourcroy J, Goldstein I, Graziottin A, Heiman J, Laan E, Leiblum S, Padma-Nathan H, Rosen R, Segraves K, Segraves RT, Shabsigh R, Sipski M, Wagner G, Whipple B (2001). Report of the International Consensus Development Conference on Female Sexual Dysfunction: Definitions and Classifications. ''Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy'', Volume 27, Issue 2 March 2001, pages 83 – 94. *Coleman CC, King BR, Bolden-Watson C, Book MJ, Segraves RT, Richard N, Ascher J, Batey S, Jamerson B, Metz A (2001). A placebo-controlled comparison of the effects on sexual functioning of bupropion sustained release and fluoxetine. ''Clinical Therapeutics''. Volume 23, Issue 7, July 2001, Pages 1040-1058. *Segraves RT, Balon R (2003). ''Sexual Pharmacology: Fast Facts.'' Norton
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*Segraves RT, Clayton A, Croft H, Wolf A, Warnock J (2004). Bupropion sustained release for the treatment of hypoactive sexual desire disorder in premenopausal women. ''Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology'' 24(3):339-342. *Balon R, Segraves RT (2005). ''Handbook of Sexual Dysfunction.'' Taylor & Francis Ltd. *Levine SB, Segraves RT (2007). Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders. In Gabbard GO (ed.). ''Gabbard's Treatments of Psychiatric Disorders.'' American Psychiatric Pub, Inc.

References

External links

Robert Taylor Segraves curriculum vitae
via MetroHealth {{DEFAULTSORT:Segraves, Robert Taylor 1941 births Living people American psychiatrists American sexologists Baylor School alumni Vanderbilt University alumni Alumni of the University of London