Title: Creative-dynamic image synthesis: a useful addition to the treatment options for impotence

Author: Sommer F.[1], Obenaus K.[2], Engelmann U.[1], Correspondence: F Sommer*

[1]Department of Urology, University Medical Center of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, 
[2]Munich Working Group on Psychoanalysis (MAP), Munich, Germany, 
[*]Klinik und Poliklinik fur Urologie der Universitat zu Koln, Joseph-Stelzmann-Str. 9, D-50924 Koln, Germany. E-mail: Frank.Sommer@uni-koeln.de

Journal: International Journal of Impotence Research, October 2001, vol. 13, no. 5 pp. 268-274 

Abstract:

In contrast to the impressive advances made in somatic research on erectile dysfunction, psychogenic erectile dysfunction is usually treated as a monolithic block. In this study, we evaluated the erectogenic power of creative-dynamic image synthesis in men with psychogenic erectile dysfunction. Sixty-nine men with a mean age of 46 y, suffering from erectile dysfunction of no known organic cause, were entered in a placebo-controlled study in which the erectogenic power of imagination, yohimbine and a placebo were compared. There was a significant difference between the subjective results of creative-dynamic image synthesis (75% increase of potency) and those achieved through treatment with the drug yohimbine (55% increase in potency) and with a placebo (30% increase in potency). Creative-dynamic image synthesis is a potent initiator of erections in men with psychogenic erectile dysfunction, has no known side effects and is very cost-effective.

International Journal of Impotence Research (2001) 13, 268–274.
Keywords: erectile dysfunction, psychogenic; treatment option, creative-dynamic image synthesis