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the relaxed route.

‘arousal.

“We're not saying all sex
therapy aimed .at relaxing
people should: be discon-
tinued,” says Dr. John P.
Wincze,. associate professor
of psychiatry at Brown
University.

“What we are suggesting is
that there is a complex

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relationship between anxiety
and sexual arousal and that
we should explore these
more carefully.

anxiety-producing and
sexually-arousing situations.
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situations demand that
patients be more relaxed and
in which ones it might be
helpful to have them work
with their anxiety.”

The research is underway
at the Providence Veterans
Administration Hospital.
Wincze is that hospital's
chief of Psychology Service
and director of Sexual
Performance Laboratory.

SEX RESEARCH LAB

In a sex research lab, the
investigators simulate both

First they show a tape of a
violent auto accident or an
Alfred Hitchcock thriller.
These get the blood flowing.
Next comes a sexually-
arousing film. Preliminary
findings: Subjects respond
more readily to crotica
following an anxicty-
producting film than after a
“neutral one.”

As ai result of = these
pretimminary finds, Wincze

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to sexual afousal.

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the body for sexual activity,”
he says.

“We are hoping that once
we understand the complex
physiological changes that
accompany sexual arousal,
we will be able to improve
the therapy we are offering
currently for sexual
problems.”

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