Sigmund Freud and His Impact on Our Understanding of Male Sexual Dysfunction

While some of Freud's theories are obsolete today, many parts of his work appear to be astonishingly modern, even in the light of current neurobiological research and recent models of sexual dysfunction. Above all, Freud was an extremely gifted observer of human behavior who shows us that in many cases, sexual dysfunctions are no isolated phenomena, but have their roots in biographically based intrapsychic or interpersonal conflicts. Hartmann U. Sigmund freud and his impact on our understanding of male sexual dysfunction. J Sex Med 2009;6:2332-2339.