Training to improve skills in this work should be sought by anyone who is encountering many patients with sexual difficulties. Information about training is available from the Institute of Psychosexual Medicine. Perhaps those who work in family planning and are not seeing patients with sexual problems should examine their consultation skills (see Chapter 13) to discover what prevents patients revealing their difficulties. The aim of basic training should be to learn to make a diagnosis in sexually related problems, know which can be treated in the setting in which they present and in the time available, and which patients should be referred elsewhere. Doctors who want, and are suitable, to make this a field of special interest should go on to more specialized further training and may be able, then, to treat more complex and time-consuming problems in separate sessions outside their normal working environment.

Sometimes referral represents a flight from the complaints presented by the patient; at other times it may be a necessity because of over-involvement with the patient’s difficulties or emotions.

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