SEMINAR TRAINING FOR CONTRACEPTIVE CARE – UNSPOKEN COMMUNICATIONS
(CONSULTATION)
The process of thinking during a consultation, and subsequently describing what happened to a group of colleagues, soon leads to an awareness of many unspoken communications from the patient. Mode of dress, the presence or absence of eye contact, feelings of anger, despair or withdrawal coming from the patient are reported by the doctor. But, more importantly, the doctor begins to be able to study the feelings that are present in himself or herself, and to see that they may have been aroused by the particular patient in the consulting room. Thus it is the interaction, the atmosphere, the flow of feeling and action between the two people that is the subject of study and that can reveal unconscious truths about the patient. One doctor in training said, ‘I am learning to use another part of myself to help my patients.’
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