SEMINAR TRAINING FOR CONTRACEPTIVE CARE – WHAT SORT OF DOCTOR? (PERSONAL FEELINGS)
An anxiety for many doctors and nurses is the fear that they may have to discuss their own personal feelings in the group. It has already been pointed out that at no time is the sexuality of the professional a subject of study. Similarly, the members are not required to look at their own history or hang-ups in the group, but only at their doctoring or nursing skills. There is no sense in which doctors have to ‘fully understand themselves’ before they can help patients, for if that were so there would be few doctors working in this way. Most of those whose personal difficulties are so severe as to interfere with their work will not join a group, or they will soon opt out.
Members learn to make allowances for their own private biases within the privacy of their own personal lives. A few who find that the group experience stirs up personal difficulties will seek personal help outside the group.
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