Cognitive behavioural therapy for erectile disorder: A study from the People's Republic of China

Abstract Sex therapy in China has developed over the past three years, despite being largely unknown by the public and many clinical practitioners. This paper describes a short-term, comprehensive sex therapy, employing cognitive-behavioural techniques which were used to treat 21 couples with erectile dysfunction, where the remission rate was 61.8%. The authors believe that the technique of couple evaluation proved to be an objective measure of change. There was a close relationship between the outcome of therapy and the following factors: the course of therapy, the wife's attitude to sex, the level of the patients' psychosocial problems, and the state of the marriage itself.