Paradoxical Intention: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Sexual Neurosis

Excessive attention, or hyper-reflection, as it is called in logotherapy, may also be pathogenic that. Is lead to sickness? The following clinical report will indicate what I mean. A young woman came to me complaining of being frigid. In her childhood she had been sexually abused by her father. This was enough to incapacitate the patient for the peak experience of sexual pleasure. When her attention was refocused toward the proper object, i.e., the partner, orgasm established itself spontaneously. After suffering from his phobia for four years, he was able, after a single session, to free himself permanently of it within one week.