Psychological theories and treatments of erectile impotence
Mormont, C.
Acta Psychiatrica Belgica 85(2): 325-372
1985
ISSN/ISBN: 0300-8967 PMID: 3893044 Document Number: 253698
The conceptual inaccuracies and the diagnostic difficulties encountered in the study of erectile impotence are underlined by the author. After a review and critique of the psychoanalytical and behavioral trends, of the "new sex therapy" and of cognitivism, the therapeutic methods which derive from these concepts are compared with each other. A particular attention is devoted to anxiety since its definition and prevalence varies considerably in the literature despite a misleading superficial similarity.