The ultimate level in couple communication is sexual intercourse. When there is couple complaint of sexual dysfunction, the primary source of absolute communication is interfered with or even destroyed and most other sources or means of interpersonal communication rapidly tend…
At onset of the program, couples were requested to devote three weeks of their time to the therapeutic program. This concept of time commitment was maintained for the first two years of this clinical research program. Evaluation of sexual experience made clear…
In order to establish at least a minimum of patient screening, at onset of the clinical treatment program no units were accepted in therapy unless the complaining partner in the couple (e.g., the impotent male or the non orgasmic female) had…
In any approach to a psycho-physiological process, treatment concepts vary measurably from school to school and, similarly, from individual therapist to individual therapist. The Reproductive Biology Research Foundation’s theoretical approaches to the treatment of men and women distressed by some…
In therapeutic procedure involving the dual-sex teams, the control within the team rests primarily with the silent cotherapist during treatment sessions. The silent cotherapist is literally in charge of each therapeutic session. He or she, as the observer, is watching…
If there are to be dual-sex therapy teams, what roles do the individual cotherapists play? What guidelines do they follow? What therapeutic procedures ensue? What should be their qualifications as professionals in this sensitive, emotionally charged area? These are all…
Regardless of the particular form of sexual inadequacy with which both members of the couple are contending. Fears of sexual performance are of major concern to both partners in the marital bed. The impotent male’s fears of performance can be described…
A separate discussion of woman sexuality is necessary primarily because the role assigned to the functional component of woman’s sexual identity rarely has been accorded the socially enforced value afforded male sexuality. While the parallel between sexes as to physiological…
She responds physiologically to sex-tension elevation. The four phases of the female cycle of sexual response established in 1960s will be employed to identify clinically important vasocongestive and myotonic reactions developing in the pelvic viscera of any woman responding to…
An interesting variation on this classification of repression should be mentioned. There were several primarily non orgasmic women whose receptivity to the repressive conditioning was slightly different. Their own particular personality characteristics or their relationship to negatively directive authority was…
