[Disordered potency in men with hysterical neurosis and hysteroid-circle psychopathy]

Structural analysis of sexual disorders and clinico-psychopathological examinations were made to study and compare the clinical features and causes of the origin of potency derangements in men with hysteric neurosis and psychopathy of the hysteroid circle. The phenomenology and structure of potency derangements were studied in the groups of patients indicated. The role of the sexological premorbid condition and of the personality traits in the development of those derangements was determined. The role of deactualization of sexual relations (because of psychosomatic and psychopathological manifestations of neurosis) was defined as a factor leading to congestive prostatovesiculitis and thus favouring the origin of sexual disorders in patients suffering from hysteric neurosis. It has been shown that in men with psychopathy of the hysteroid circle, of crucial importance in the origin of potency derangements are their characterological traits resulting in unaccommodation with a sexual partner and easy formation of the personality reactions of "failure expectation" during intimacy.