The British Journal of Psychiatry (1971) 118: 87-90. doi: 10.1192/bjp.118.542.87
© 1971 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
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Treatment of Phobic Anxiety and Psychogenic Impotence by Systematic Desensitization Employing Methohexitone-Induced Relaxation

D. E. FRIEDMAN M.R.C.S.1 and M. S. LIPSEDGE M.A., M.B., M.R.C.P.2

1 Associate Chief Assistant, Department of Psychological Medicine, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London EC1
2 Registrar, Department of Psychological Medicine, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, EC1

The results of behaviour therapy using systematic desensitization with methohexitone-induced relaxation in 124 patients with phobic anxiety states are reported. The disorders included social anxieties, monosymptomatic and heterosexual phobias and the agoraphobic syndrome. After a mean period of 19.4 months (range 6 months to 5 years) 47 patients (38 per cent) were symptom free, 63 (51 per cent) were improved and only 14 (11 per cent) showed no change.

Submitted on December 5, 1969