Transvestism and Fetishism: Clinical and Psychological Changes during Faradic Aversion

Abstract

New methods of treatment often prove to be valuable tools of clinical investigation. The advent of antidepressant drugs enhanced knowledge about depressive disorders, while the introduction of psychoanalytic techniques yielded a rich harvest from the field of psychopathology. Yet another technique which can throw fresh light on psychopathology is electric aversion, a method now used increasingly in the treatment of certain sexual disorders. With this method separate symptoms can be treated in turn, and their interrelations can thus be changed and studied. With careful clinical control and measurement we can examine the importance of various aspects of sexual disorders hitherto open to observation but not to detailed modification.