Psychology 2075 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Meh, Blind Experiment, Stage Fright

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2075
• Professor: William Fisher

Document Summary

First record of sexual dysfunction was in sir john hunter"s journal. A young couple consulted him with a problem with penetrative sex. He recorded that he sent the couple to an isolated cabin in the woods for a week with instructions to forbid sexual contact. the couple returned after 3 days being unable to follow his instructions. Johnson"s intervention called sensei focus 200 years early. Sexual dysfunctions could simply be inhibited by anxiety, which was noted by maters and johnson. When you lay down the rule in therapy that you cannot have sex, you are implicitly avoiding the situation that would cause anxiety that would cause the sexual dysfunction. Keeps going more sexual and then told to stop once aroused. The model here is to arrange hierarchical/progressive sexual interactions but to forbid the anxiety provoking event in that way side tracking anxiety to produce the desired event. that is called.