MASTURBATION AND ANXIETY
While in recent decades there have been more and more statements that masturbation is physically harmless and the morality-through-fear school of thought has diminished, there are still many males who...
View ArticlePOSTMARITAL COITUS: INCIDENCE
The overwhelming majority of males whose marriages terminate continue heterosexual coitus afterwards. In terms of age-specific incidence of total postmarital coitus, the figures vary from 54 to 100 per...
View ArticleTHE SETTING FOR THE OFFENSE BEHAVIOR: PREMEDITATION
The problem of premeditation poses many difficulties, not the least of which is its intimate relationship with the concept of responsibility in criminal behavior. In order to cast the widest net, the...
View ArticleTHE SEXUAL PSYCHOPATH
The gradual shift over the past century from the concept of punishment to that of rehabilitation has resulted in the development of innovations such as probation, parole, indeterminate sentence,...
View ArticleCULTURAL PERCEPTIONS AND MISCONCEPTIONS – EDUCATING THE PROFESSIONAL...
Doctors, nurses or other health care workers who are new to an area that includes significant numbers of patients from a different cultural group may find themselves faced with a barrage of folk-lore...
View ArticleDISABILITY AND STERILIZATION – CONCLUSION
A sad woman in her mid-30s was referred to hospital asking for her sterilization to be reversed. She came with her husband. They were living a completely independent life in their own home. The woman...
View ArticlePSYCHOSEXUAL PROBLEMS IN THE CONTRACEPTIVE CONSULTATION – COVERT...
Miss P. attended a clinic asking for non-allergenic condoms. The nurse enquired why and was told that the patient was allergic to ordinary sheaths. Undetered by the patient’s defensive manner, the...
View ArticleANALYSIS OF THE FAMILY PLANNING CONSULTATION – RAPPORT (GENERAL INFORMATION)
Establishing rapport is to do with making the patient feel at ease. Ascertaining the name the patient likes to be called is useful; it may well be different from the names given at registration....
View ArticleSEMINAR TRAINING FOR CONTRACEPTIVE CARE – THE BODY AND THE MIND (GENERAL...
General practitioners are familiar with the idea that illnesses are seldom due to purely physical or purely emotional causes. The input of each side has to be weighed at every consultation. Seminar...
View ArticleIDEAL MARRIAGE: FUNDAMENTAL EQUALITY – A FEW ODDS AND ENDS
A few odds and ends should be mentioned in discussion of equality. A couple after marriage may find certain serious differences in their habits which were neglected by them during courtship, neither...
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