1985 Volume 76 Issue 10 Pages 1486-1492
In order to ascertain the relationship between sexual dysfunction and psychosomatic findings, the three different personality test: Rorsach test, thematic apperception test, sentence completion test were performed in 13 patients with psychogenic impotence, 3 patients with organic impotence, 42 patients with Klinefelter's syndrome, 13 patients with hypogonadotropic hypogonadism.
Male gender role, aggressiveness and physical inferiority were evaluated by these psychological tests.
Psychological evaluations suggested that most of psycogenic impotence had poorly etablished Male gender role and loss of aggressivenss.
The same psychological characteristics were noticed in patients with Klinefelter's syndrome and hypogonadism. It is suspected that loss of aggressiveness is the most important psychological factor for sexual dysfunction in patients with psychologic impotence.
The psychological evaluations are useful to diagnosis and treatment for psychogenic impotence.
