Psychiatric Complications Following Sterilization of Women

Ellison, R. M.

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“…As mentioned previously, many writers have maintained that women's self-image is to an important degree dependent upon the capacity to bear children, and anything which interferes with this function must therefore be psychologically damaging (Deutsch, 1945;Ellison, 1964;Green, 1972;Polivy, 1974). So far attempts to relate parity to response to hysterectomy have been inconclusive.…”

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The psychological effects of hysterectomy.

Meikle¹

1977

Canadian Psychological Review / Psychologie Canadienne

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Although hysterectomy remains one of the most common forms of surgery to which women are likely to be exposed the psychological implications remain obscure. Psychological factors have been investigated both as independent and dependent variables but a variety of procedural and design shortcomings leave importance of such factors obscure. The more common faults include an undue emphasis on retrospective designs, inadequate controls, contamination of assessment procedures and failure to quantify and adequately analyse results. The present article concludes with an examination of those variables which ought to be considered by investigators planning research in this area. RESUMEMeme si I'hysterectomie demeure I'une des formes de chirurgie les plus communes auxquelles les femmes sont exposees, on en conna'it encore peu les implications psychologiques. On a recherche ('importance des facteurs psychologiques aussi bien comme variables dependantes qu'independantes, mais cette importance demeure encore obscure a cause d'un ensemble d'insuffisances touchant aux techniques ou aux plans de recherches utilises. Parmi les defauts les plus frequents, on pent citer le recours abusif aux modeles retrospectifs, I'insuffisance des controles, la contamination des techniques devaluation, le defaut de quantification des resultats et I'insuffisance des analyses faites. L'article se termine par une etude des variables dont devraient tenir compte les chercheurs interesses a ce domaine.

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“…Very similar criticisms apply to the study by Ellison (1964). This author examined the records of 765 female admissions to a mental hospital.…”

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The psychological effects of hysterectomy.

Meikle¹

1977

Canadian Psychological Review / Psychologie Canadienne

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“…Patterson's group found that the incidence of previous hysterectomy in patients admitted to an acute psychiatric service was only slightly higher than that expected for the female population and concluded that "hysterectomy was of little significance with respect to the development of mental illness"an interesting negative finding among many positive ones. Ellison (1964), in a Western Australian study, examined 765 new female psychiatric admissions and found that 9.7 per cent had had previous gynaecological surgery. These could be subdivided into groups of 20 tuba1 ligation subjects, in whom illness appeared 4 months after operation, 30 hysterectomy subjects, in whom there appeared to be no connection between the operation and their mental illness, and 25 hysterectomy subjects, in whom there appeared to be a definite connection between the onset of mental illness and the operation.…”

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The Crisis of Hysterectomy

Raphael¹

1972

Aust N Z J Psychiatry

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SYNOPSISThis paper provides a review of relevant literature on the outcome of hysterectomy and on affective, defensive, cognitive, reality and object relations aspects of the hysterectomy crisis. The development, from the literature review and from the pilot study, of the research instrument, the Hysterectomy Interview Schedule is described. Parameters of response in terms of significant interactions are recorded for 100 subjects. It is concluded that women experience as helpful supportive relationships which enable them to discuss their fears and positive and negative feelings about the operation, particularly its effects on their marital and feminine role functions. Appropriate explanation and practical help are also of value to them.

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Psychiatric Complications Following Sterilization of Women

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The psychological effects of hysterectomy.

The Crisis of Hysterectomy

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