Evaluating sex therapy: Process and outcome at the masters & Johnson institute

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Abstract
Research statistics on sex therapy at the Masters & Johnson Institute have been misinterpreted by some individuals. The category of cases reported in Human Sexual Inadequacy (1970) and Textbook of Sexual Medicine (1979) as failures actually includes both outright failures and cases that showed some degree of improvement less than unequivocal reversal of the sexual symptomatology. Furthermore, only one out of 50 applicant couples are denied therapy due to screening; many troubled marriages or couples where one partner has nonsexual psychopathology are routinely accepted for treatment. Additional descriptions of process and outcome research at the Masters & Johnson Institute are discussed to allow readers to develop a clearer understanding of the significance of these findings, including the fact that data on a sizable “waiting list control group” have now been reviewed.

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