Margaret M. Ryan

Sixty women aged between 30 and 55 years, having hysterectomy for benign conditions, were prospectively studied to investigate psychological adjustment to operation, and to explore social, psychological and physical factors associated with …

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…