Short-term Hypnotherapy for Frigidity Using Exploration of Early Life Attitudes

Abstract

Experience with 255 women with sexual problems has shown the importance of early life feelings of acceptance and love in the development of healthy responsiveness. Women incapable of forming strong attachments to men require extended therapy beyond the scope of this study. Results with therapy comprising an average of two hours are given with the most recent 100 women. Steps of therapy were suggested by results of hypnotic age-regression studies of normal women capable of multiple orgasms during intercourse. A detailed account is given of one successful therapeutic session involving the combination of ideomotor questioning with light hypnosis. Use was made of ideas offered by the patient.