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The Impact Of Hysterectomy During Adolescence In A Woman Of Reproductive Age, Susan K. Ball, Md
The Impact Of Hysterectomy During Adolescence In A Woman Of Reproductive Age, Susan K. Ball, Md
Jefferson Journal of Psychiatry
There is extensive psychiatric literature on the psychological effects of hysterectomy on both pre-menopausal and post-menopausal women, but a careful search covering the last ten years and beyond reveals no references to the impact of hysterectomy during adolescence. There is also nothing on this subject in the gynecological literature of the last ten years. Obviously, the incidence of severe pathology necessitating hysterectomy is extremely rare. However, there can be little doubt that a procedure of such symbolic magnitude at an age when a young woman is trying to integrate her personality, emerge as an autonomous sexual being, and experiencing a …
Psychotherapy Or Pseudotherapy?, Lawson R. Wulsin, Md
Psychotherapy Or Pseudotherapy?, Lawson R. Wulsin, Md
Jefferson Journal of Psychiatry
What is psychotherapy? I wish I knew . Thick books and long talks still leave me wondering. Hours of patients and almost as many hours of supervision leave the question hanging. I know what ECT is and how to give a good trial of arnitryptiline, but I am never quite sure if what I am offering is true psychotherapy. Admittedly I am young and have only been wet for five years. But I have had one experience in my short time that put the question in perspective by putting it backwards, that is, what is notpsychotherapy, or what is pseudotherapy?
The Webs We Weave: A Patient With Depression, Mary Ann Venezia, Md
The Webs We Weave: A Patient With Depression, Mary Ann Venezia, Md
Jefferson Journal of Psychiatry
Looking back over C.'s records, I was struck by a phrase I had used to describe her, "She really seems at a loss as to what she should do with herself. " A more accurate appraisal might have reflected my own uncertainty as to how I could help C. Hospitalized eight times in eight years after serious suicide attempts, she had been treated with neuroleptics, antidepressants, psychotherapy, and been involved with a day program. Once again she was in the hospital, severely depressed following a suicide attempt. There was little the psychiatric establishment had not tried . So I taught …