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GUEST,Nurse Ratched	BS: Stages of Human Male Development (118* d)	RE: BS: Stages of Human Male Development	02 Feb 07
You may be interested in some research recently published by my dear cousin, Ponsiora... The Role Of The Testicles In Male Psychological Development Ponsiora E. Ratchovsky The role of the testicles in male psychological development is marginal. Previous psychoanalytic studies revealing critical research data from pediatric urology and physiological sex research draw a number of significant conclusions. (1) Certain cases of pathological castration anxiety are explained by a psychosomatic phenomenon (the "testicular vicious cycle") caused by actual and perceived threats to the genitals. (2) Testicular factors may be decisive in various neurotic symptom formations beginning with the early toilet training period. The testicular contribution then takes place along certain preferred pathways of symbolic displacement. (3) Testicular symptoms are observed in many cases of physical and sexual abuse. This finding has application to the treatment of male abuse survivors and to their related sexual dysfunctions. (4) Masturbation involving the testicles is not infrequent in young boys; the most common practice consists of inserting the testes inside the body. (5) The condition of cryptorchism may contribute to psychopathology, especially in the area of masculine self-image; however, cryptorchid boys do not tend to be gender-disordered, effeminate, or prehomosexual. (6) Male body image formation after the phallic stage is a complex emotional and intellectual task involving temporary denial of the inner body and the testicles. Finally, it is suggested that a revised account of male sexuality, including both penis and testicles, is a prerequisite for any psychoanalytic theory of gender.(7)Lavendar oil has been found to promote intellectual development at such a phrenocranial rate that men using this substance develop an uncontrollable need to go shopping. Some research using a selection of subjects aged between 14 and 87 is ongoing, and a number of emerging issues relating to cryptomania, mudcatochism, gender dysmorphia and temporary denial of consciousness will be discussed in the next issue, along with an article on stuffing eggplants. Ponsiora E. Ratchovsky

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