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Psychosomatic Medicine 19:152-157 (1957)
© 1957 American Psychosomatic Society

Rectal Resection

Psychiatric and Medical Management of Its Sequelae; Report of a Case

BERNARD C. MEYER M.D.1 and ALBERT S. LYONS M.D.1

1 The Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York, N. Y.

A combined medical and psychiatric treatment of a depression consequent to a colostomy and an organic impotence following rectal resection for cancer in a 33-year-old man has been described. It is concluded that aside from the benefit provided by active and encouraging instruction in the management of a hitherto uncontrolled colostomy, a major component in the rehabilitation of the patient consisted in the establishment of strongly supportive relationships between the patient and his therapists. Emphasis is placed upon the importance of this phase of the therapy of surgically mutilated subjects.

Submitted on April 26, 1956






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