Medical Hypnoanalysis In the Treatment of Sexual Dysfunctions
Sexual Dysfunctions
As in many other cases, discovering causes is important. Medical factors must be checked.
Non-medical causes may include childhood punishments, early religious background and training, poor handling of childhood curiosities by parents or teachers, life experiences, trauma, etc. Therapy for the female may require cooperation of a male partner, development of understanding of response, needs for attention, security, comfort, foreplay.
Male problems include impotence, premature ejaculation, and fears about physical structure, masculinity and rejection. Suggestion therapy, de-sensitization and re-education can prove effective. Medical Hypnoanalysis provides an ideal approach.
One Medical Hypnoanalysts commented that good sex is merely an erotic trance. When the similarities between hypnosis and gratifying sex are considered, he is quite right. Effective hypnosis involves high focus and concentration on the matter being dealt with. So does effective sex. In hypnosis there is a strong response to suggestion. In sex there is a strong response to verbal and physical stimulation. Sex therapist may not know much about hypnosis. But Medical Hypnoanalysts know about sex.
The basic effort, from any approach, is to liberate clients from reservations, distractions, emotions or other conflict so as to develop a focused state of awareness. Orgasm may well be the definitive trance-sensations are powerful, exceedingly intense to the point where all other thoughts, feelings, sensations or emotions are obliterated from the psyche.
When troubles develop in sexual performance or enjoyment, a logical approach is (as in many other problem areas) to look for causes. What has happened? When did problems begin? How did they progress? Quite often Medical Hypnoanalytic regression may prove illuminating, locating sources of problems and indicating the appropriate therapeutic procedures to resolve them.
It is valuable at the outset to determine the client's dominant type of sexuality- active or passive. Normal people are a blend of both, though one is usually a bit stronger. Sexuality, as with suggestibility, can be measured to determine the dominant type and evaluate its relative factor of strength. The active sexual person is likely to be a bit more outgoing, even aggressive, sexually. To the passive sexual person, feelings are probably more internal.
For effective therapy it is important to identify sexuality type in order to understand response. While marital compatibility has been studied, reported and written about in volumes, personality compatibility has received negligible attention. It has long been known that opposites attract-this feature is more often than not accountable for the "spark" that draws people together. Yet the same "opposite" element provides the breeding ground for potential clashes, communication problems, lack of understanding of intents and emotions and other factors, which mature into insecurities. Understanding sexuality types, then, can smooth the progress of compatibility.
Viva La Difference
There is a story told about a meeting on sexuality at which a celebrated university lecturer explained to the listeners "there is in actuality very little difference between the male and the female." Before he could progress more a booming male voice called out from the back of the hall in an unquestionably French accent: "Vive la difference!"
Sexuality type refers to behavior-performance-not simply in sexual matters but in all aspects of life, dealing with situations as well as relationships. Medical Hypnoanalysis can offer opportunities and means to make directional changes that can evade damaging life patterns and open doors to triumphant and pleasurable living.
A client who, for example, is 60% active suggestible is as a result also 40% passive suggestible, and has sufficient emotional suggestibility to comprehend, and amend to the requirements and personality of a partner who is dominantly emotionally suggestible. On the other hand, a client who is 80% active suggestible is likely to have a great deal more difficult time either understanding or adjusting to a passive suggestible mate. Some work is almost certain to be needed to modify the suggestibility implicated so as to bring them within ranges of compatibility, saving the relationship and making it more agreeable.
Determining Factors
Some authorities on sexuality claim 'a person's type of sexuality is determined by the father (or father figure) in a family, usually in pre-teen or early teen years'. Children who have fathers who are actively oriented-demonstrative, verbal, outgoing-are likely to emerge with active sexual characteristics. In cases where the mother is of the active sexual type, and the father is not, passive sexuality is likely to develop.
However, the above is not always the case. Sometimes a boy will develop conflicting sexuality from the father because sexuality is affected by how the boy perceives the father's behavior and an erroneous view can amend the development process.
Major differences in types of sexuality can be relationship shattering. The most stable solution to such problems lies in behavior modification. Medical Hypnoanalysis can aid clients with excessive differences that may exist out of lack of knowledge and/or half-truths. Understanding is essential to eradicate fears and allow for relaxation so as to accept some of the necessary behavioral patterns important in achieving meaningful and emotionally bonding sexual intercourse.
As modification enables behavior patterns to become less intense on either side of the center, a sense of balance can grow connecting nearness and detachment, which are essential in satisfying relationship This results from the attainment of an improved stability between the active and passive sexuality characteristics of the partners concerned, and leads to appreciation and communication levels which can prove equally gratifying while increasing relationship bonds.
Medical Hypnoanalysis has proven wonderfully useful in dealing with psychosomatic sexual problems-impotence, frigidity, etc.-and in enhancing self-esteem and confidence where needed. The development of a positive self-image is at all times an essential issue in adjusting to the requirements and wishes of partners and achieving the ultimate in relationship protection.