SEMINAR TRAINING FOR CONTRACEPTIVE CARE – THE BODY AND THE MIND (CONCLUSION)
Psychosexual medicine as it is understood in great Britain in the 1990s has come a long way from its roots in family planning, when the patient was usually a woman attending on her own. Help is now offered to men and to couples. Seminar training and research has furthered doctors’ understanding of body-mind doctoring, and given insight into the skills that are needed to help patients in trouble with their sexual lives. It is worth remembering that the first psycho-sexual seminars were started in response to requests from doctors working in contraception who felt inadequate when they were faced with the sexual and emotional problems of their patients. Such problems are no less common today, and the sense of inadequacy is always present. As Main (1983) has said, ‘. . . every generation of doctors will demand a training, because doctors are never satisfied with their skills. In their discontent lies hope for the next generation of patients.’
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