Munjack D J, Schlaks A, Sanchez V C, Usigli R, Zulueta A, Leonard M
J Sex Marital Ther. 1984 Fall;10(3):170-5. doi: 10.1080/00926238408405942.
Sixteen males with erectile failure, married or living with their partners, were assigned to either 12 bi-weekly sessions (6 weeks) of Rational Emotive Therapy (RET) or a 6-week waiting-list control group. Active treatment administered by a graduate student in psychology with special training in RET resulted in patients making significantly more sexual intercourse attempts, reporting significantly reduced sexual anxiety, and having a significantly higher number of successful intercourse attempts than the waiting-list control group. While 6-9 month follow-up revealed that most treated patients had fallen back toward the pretest baseline (lower rates of successful intercourse), group means as a whole were still significantly higher than pretreatment intercourse success rates. The significance of these findings are discussed.
16名患有勃起功能障碍的男性，均已婚或与伴侣同居，被分配到接受为期12周（6周，每两周一次）的理性情绪疗法（RET）治疗组，或为期6周的等待名单对照组。由一名在RET方面接受过特殊培训的心理学研究生进行的积极治疗，使得患者进行性交尝试的次数显著增加，报告的性焦虑显著降低，且成功性交尝试的次数显著多于等待名单对照组。虽然6至9个月的随访显示，大多数接受治疗的患者已回到测试前的基线水平（成功性交率较低），但总体组均值仍显著高于治疗前的性交成功率。文中讨论了这些发现的意义。
