Exam 4 Flashcards
History of Approaches to Sexual Dysfunction
Starts
1786
Sir John Hunter reports first treatment of erectile failure
1789: Sir John Hunter
Sends couples with unconsummated marriage, due to erectile dysfunction, to his secluded cabin, and FORBADE sexual contact.
- Unable to follow instructions.
1789: Sir John hunters solution?
- Remove the individual from anxiety (AKA. put in secluded cabin)
- Couple returned saying that they were not able to follow the instructions.
- Engineer a situation that anxiety can be lessened to the point where sexual function returns.
1890-1900: Kraft-Edbing
“Psychopathia Sexualis”
Kraft-Edbing: “Psychopathia Sexualis”
- Appallingly Victorian
- Psychopathia Sexualis is what he considered as perversions.
- His recommendation was to hot iron the clitoris of a masturbator.
( people is insane asylums would publicly engage in masturbation or same sex sexual activity)
1930-1965: Fruendian Psychoanalysis, Psychodynamic approaches
- Sexual problems are SYMPTOMS of unconscious conflict.
- Do NOT treat symptoms- identify and provide insight into their underlying unconscious conflictual basis.
( bring it into conscious)
Freud and Rapid Ejaculation?
Possibly due to unconscious view of castration.
1965-1990: Masters and Johnson
- Pragmatic, brief, symptom focused, behavioural therapy.
- Sexual problems are learned behaviours that are amenable to learned solutions.
Masters and Johnson: Obstetrician and Gynaecologist
- Asked to study prostitutes
- Began recording for lab studies- what their bodies were doing and how to repair problematic sexual function.
Masters and Johnsons Contribution:
- Appropriate for era with little understanding of sexual dysfunction.
- View that sexual function proceeds unless their anxiety, spectating, and ignorance.
- Get people to approach anxiety situation without provoking anxiety and spectating, it should no longer hinder sexual function.
Masters and Johnson Treatment ideology?
Treatment: Symptom focused
- Worked well
- Not well involved in neurology and vascular basis in ageing men.
1990-200: Sex versus Marital and Relationship Therapy- Disorders of sexual Desire : HELEN KAPLAN
- Notice that most patients don’t have orgasmic erectile, and pain problems ( they lack DESIRE)
1990-2019: Development of Pharmacotherapy
Sildenafil, tadalafil, vardenafil; flibanserin.
Drug therapy: thought that alpha blocker might be related to penile erection.
The sexual Response Cycle : Male and Female
Masters and Johnsons: Conceptualize that men are understanding of their diagnosis of sexual dysfunction.
Modern day approach:
- People can have disorders of sexual desire.
- They might have problems with arousal.
- They may also have orgasmic problems.
- May experience coital pain
( All are looked at in both masters and Kaplans work)