title: [Psychological theories and treatments of erectile impotence].
abstract: The conceptual inaccuracies and the diagnostic difficulties encountered in the study of erectile impotence are underlined by the author. After a review and critique of the psychoanalytical and behavioral trends, of the "new sex therapy" and of cognitivism, the therapeutic methods which derive from these concepts are compared with each other. A particular attention is devoted to anxiety since its definition and prevalence varies considerably in the literature despite a misleading superficial similarity.
mesh_terms: D001007:Anxiety; D001521:Behavior Therapy; D001527:Behaviorism; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D007172:Erectile Dysfunction / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D011582:Psychological Theory; D011613:Psychotherapy
vernacular_title: Théories et traitements psychologiques de l'impuissance érective.