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Treatment Model for Young Patients with Psychogenic Erectile Dysfunction and Resultant Infertility
Published on: May 30, 2025
[Sexuality--psychosomatic representation of the relationship]
1Universitätsklinik für Medizinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, Innsbruck, Osterreich. kurt.loewit@uibk.ac.at
Abstract:
A salutogenic understanding of sexuality as a means of non-verbal communication embodiing essential basic needs, e.g. for acceptance, closeness, warmth, security, as they are sought in all relationships, is explicated from the point of view of sex therapy. Hence, a relation-oriented or syndyastic sex therapy focuses on the fulfillment of these basic needs and desires in general as well as by sexual commmunication in particular and thus creates favourable conditions for relieving sexual dysfunctions. Couples learn to relate sexuality with basic needs and connect it to lust, thus enhancing quality of life as well as psychosomatic well-being and health.
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