Margaret M. Ryan

Studies of the psychological and sexual outcome of hysterectomy have often arrived at conflicting conclusions and this has resulted in some confusion among health professionals as well as among women themselves. This situation should cause …

Hysterectomy has long been reputed to be followed by a high incidence of psychological and sexual sequelae. Historically, the uterus was thought to have a profound influence on psychological health. Psychoanalytic viewpoints attributed sequ…