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Psychological and hormonal factors in the treatment of female sexual dysfunction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Andrew Mathews ,
Antonia Whitehead  and
John Kellett
Andrew Mathews*
Affiliation:
St George's Hospital Medical School, London
Antonia Whitehead
Affiliation:
St George's Hospital Medical School, London
John Kellett
Affiliation:
St George's Hospital Medical School, London
*
1 Address for correspondence: Professor Andrew Mathews, Dapartment of Psychology, St George' Hospital Medical School. Cranmer Terrace, Tooting, London SW17 0RE.
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Synopsis

Forty-eight couples with a presenting problem of female sexual unresponsiveness were treated in a controlled study using a balanced factorial design. The factors varied in this design were medication (testosterone or placebo), treatment frequency (weekly or monthly sessions), and the number of therapists involved (one female or a male/female pair). All counselling was adapted from that described by Masters & Johnson (1970) and Heiman et al. (1976). Results were assessed before and after a 3-month treatment period, and again 6 months later. Contary to expectations from earlier work, there was no benefit attributable to testosterone or to the use two therapits; selfrating favoured weekly sessions with one therapist.

Type
Research Article
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , February 1983 , pp. 83 - 92
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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