Does psychotherapy work?
Published 10/19/2011 | 
There are practically no special sex therapy studies to evaluate if they can help the patients with PE. However these studies report a tendency for 75 % of men involved to get more control over rapid ejaculation and have a satisfactory sexual activity.
It is not proved by the results of special researches that individual or couple psychotherapy may contribute to the PE improvement in men, but the statistic data shows that individual therapy, for instance, helps the single men with PE to enter into new relationships more easily and reduces fear of previous failures.
Behavioral psychotherapy is a very good way to learn specific techniques to control the ejaculation process, arousal, and cope with fear and anxiety.
Couples therapy is also helpful in solving the difficulties affecting performance in bed and in learning behavioral techniques as well. These techniques involving ejaculatory control and stimulation are practiced by both partners toghether.
Combining medications with psychological therapies allows a delay of ejaculation. Medications help giving more confidence to a man who learns not to fear his arousal. Once the result is successfully achieved many men can do without medications.
Recent attitudes to psychotherapy focus on control of ejaculation by learning new techniques, getting confidence, reducing anxiety and having better communication.
Sex therapists believe that psychological treatments alone or combined with medications have general improvement in sexual and relationship satisfaction.
