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  • Title: [Psychology and contraception].
    Author: Walter FX.
    Journal: J Med Strasb; 1974 Dec; 5(13):851-4. PubMed ID: 12257852.
    Abstract:
    The language and psychology of the contraception consultation are categorized and discussed. Patients have a range of dialects depending on their education, just as physicians gave several dialects depending on whether they are speaking academically with colleagues, in consultation with patients, or in private with their own sex partners. The 3 typical kinds of patients are the initiators who request contraception, the majority who are ambivalent, and those who refuse to use contraception. The 1st group would simply say "I want no more children"; the second might choose an efficient method but not buy the prescription and then say "I don't know how I became pregnant"; the 3rd group are often young people who equate contraception with bourgeois behavior. They refuse to put any limit or price on their pleasure. There are also patients who perceive contraception as a magic cure-all. The doctor should not speak too pedantically or naively but try to convey to his patient that medical consultation is a serious effort in which the equality of doctor and patient is confirmed.
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