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Psychological Correlates

Seymour Fisher, PhD; Howard Osofsky, MD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1967;17(2):214-226.

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THE FACT of differential sexual responsiveness in women has been widely discussed; and there are a number of theoretical formulations concerning the factors contributing to the ability to achieve satisfactory sexual experience. It is within the psychoanalytic literature that one finds the most explicit concern with this matter and also the most elaborate attempts to offer meaningful explanatory concepts. In accordance with Freud's formulations^1,2 it is assumed that the ability to obtain satisfaction from intercourse is a function of personal maturity. The view is taken that if a woman successfully copes with pregenital problems and resolves her oedipal conflicts satisfactorily, she then becomes capable of achieving genitality, which is equated with the highest form of maturity. She manifests this in the ability to achieve satisfaction and orgasm via a "normal" sexual relationship. One should note that in the freudian scheme real genitality . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Syracuse, NY

From the departments of psychiatry (Dr. Fisher) and obstetrics and gynecology (Dr. Osofsky), State University of New York, Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication March 13, 1967.

Reprint requests to State University of New York, Upstate Medical Center, 766 Irving Ave, Syracuse, NY 13210.

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