Psychosis after Eye Surgery

Abstract

FEW physicians would dispute the importance of the doctor–patient relation in facilitating recovery from an illness. Although the factors involved in this relation in psychiatry apply equally to patients with medical and surgical disorders, only rarely have internists or surgeons made conscious efforts to establish an appropriate therapeutic relation in advance. Instead, the absence of precise knowledge has led to vague recommendations for "good," "supporting" or "friendly" relations without specific instructions how this may be accomplished. Often, it is after the fact that the doctor decides that his relation has been appropriate and therapeutically advantageous.Certain eye patients who enter . . .