The psychoanalytic treatment of sexual disorders

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Three major categories associated with sexual disorders may be subsumed under prohibitive, interpersonal, and gender identity dynamics. The common denominators underlying these various systems consist of unrealistic beliefs that set off and maintain unrealistic fears that heterosexual functioning and graficiation will be hurtful to self. Distortions of beliefs and convictions about sexuality are established in childhood as a consequence of adverse influences on sexual development. Destructive attitudes are usually exerted by parents but also by other power figures in and outside the family. The most common sexual disorders seen in the general population are dysfunctions such as impotence, premature ejaculation, frigidity, and other operational problems; however, psychological difficulties linked to sexual behavior, though not usually recognized as sexual, are far more common— falling in love, maintaining long-term love relationships, resistance to marriage, and postpartum reactions.

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