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Factors in the Treatment of Frigidity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

M. Faulk
M. Faulk*
Affiliation:
The Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, London, S.E.5; Knowle Hospital, Fareham, Hampshire
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The literature on the treatment of sexual frigidity indicates that some success can be obtained by a variety of methods, including psychoanalytic interviews (Abrahams, 1956), insight therapy with physical self-examination (Dawkins and Taylor, 1961; Ellison, 1968), group therapy (Stone and Levine, 1950), desensitization (Lazarus, 1963), and directive advice and counselling (Hastings, 1967; Masters and Johnson, 1970). This investigation aims to look at the different kinds of frigid women and to see if this is related to outcome in treatment.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 119 , Issue 548 , July 1971 , pp. 53 - 56
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1971 

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