Psychologic Impotence

Abstract

Impotence usually is due to psychologic reasons, which range all the way from the fear of inexperience to profound disturbance such as homosexuality. The common psychologic background, however, relates to a basic difficulty in combining attitudes of love and affection with the physical aspects of the love relationship. Impotence will occur if the person loved is viewed as forbidden as a sexual object. Therapy for impotence of this type involves the attempt to change attitudes by means of psychotherapy; there is no known drug or surgical treatment.