Facial Deformities and Plastic Surgery: A Psychosocial Study

This book is the product of a research project made possible by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health, U. S. Public Health Service. It discusses in detail typical case histories and the psychosocial, psychological, and psychiatric aspects of these and other representative problems. The elementary details included will bore a thoroughly experienced plastic surgeon but will be attractive to social and educational workers primarily concerned with personal and family problems. The case histories remind one of involved reports of "dogooders" whose primary enthusiasm exceeds their insight into the unimportance of irrelevant details. The treatise will, however, increase the readers' perspective into problems of deformity and disfigurement. Younger surgeons uncertain whether to enter the field of reconstructive surgery will be helped in their deliberations by this study; those who have recently entered the specialty will acquire insight that time and experience will confirm. All who work in this