Letter: Psychological sequelae of therapeutic abortion.

Psychological Sequelae of Torture

Social and Psychological Sequelae

Hitherto a standard conservative approach has been to deny operation to all applicants with mild or minimal deformities, since it is claimed that they must necessarily have severe underlying psychiatric problems and therefore operation must inevitably prove disastrous. Another symptom might be substituted, the patient is likely to become dissatisfied and possibly litigious, and a florid psychos...

Psychological aftermath of abortion

based on clinical trials or “real world” trials (or both), but under the current policy, patients receiving a prescription for a new drug will be unaware of the full scope of the evidence. If it consists solely of data from randomized clinical trials, then patients ought to be informed that there may be limitations in detecting unmeasured or rare adverse outcomes that might appear later in a re...

Induced abortion operations and their early sequelae

In a group of 6105 women undergoing induced abortion, morbidity related to the operation occurred in 10 per cent of women, but in only two per cent was this considered to be major. The main factors which independently affected morbidity were the place of operation, gestation at termination, method of operation, sterilization at the time of abortion, and smoking habits. Morbidity rates were high...

Psychological sequelae of sexual abuse in childhood.

A questionnaire survey was carried out in one practice to determine the relationship between sexual abuse in childhood and subsequent psychological morbidity. Out of 418 women who replied (62% response rate), 60 (14%) admitted experiencing some form of sexual abuse as a child. Twenty of these (33%) were found to have a record of some form of psychological problem in adult life, compared with 14...