Plastic Surgeon Or Psychotherapist?

What pushes a person to a plastic surgery? What good reasons to have to not be afraid to lie under the surgeon's knife?
For some, plastic surgery is an opportunity to get rid of serious aesthetic problems (congenital or acquired). In this case, plastic surgery becomes for man the only way to correct the mistake of nature or to get rid of the aesthetic problem that arose as a result of an accident, surgery or illness.
For others, plastic surgery is an opportunity to regain or prolong youth, to get rid of the signs of aging in order to realize oneself in personal life. For the third - this is a condition for the development of a career, because today the image of a successful person is firmly connected with a good physical form, youth and beauty.
Modern plastic surgery has a wide arsenal of tools and techniques for solving all these problems. Liposuction (fat removal), abdominoplasty (abdominal plastic), kruroplasty (shin plastic) help to solve problems with the figure. All sorts of facelift methods help not only to restore youth, but also significantly improve the traits, make them more feminine (or more courageous when it comes to men). But with all the available options, the plastic surgeon still has to find out if the patient has overstated expectations of a plastic surgery and explain to him what real results he can expect.
It is also necessary to try to find out the true motivation that makes a person turn to plastic surgery.
The fact is that not all patients plastic surgeons give "good" to plastic. There are certain contraindications for carrying out a plastic surgery, not a physical one, but a mental one.
There are three groups of such contraindications:
- Striving for anatomical perfection. In this case, a person wants to make a minimal correction of his appearance, but not to improve it, but to get closer to perfection or ideal.
- The desire to make a large number of plastic surgeries (this desire often leads to a young man - a mental dependence on plastic surgery, a mania of self-improvement).
- The presence of diagnosed mental illness or problems. For example, a plastic surgeon has the right to refuse a patient with untreated schizophrenia, psychosis or paranoia. They will refuse in plastic surgery and patients with dysmorphophobia. People who suffer from this disorder believe that they look very strange, that their appearance has serious defects, although in fact it is not. Dysmorphophobia usually affects young people 20-30 years old, who tend to perfectionism and narcissism. They usually expect too much from the operation: not only to change their appearance, but also to improve their mental abilities and achieve success.
In all these cases, the plastic surgeon recommends referring to a psychotherapist or psychiatrist, since a plastic surgery here can be impotent: most likely, the patient will not be satisfied with its results.
Sometimes it is difficult to determine the motivation of a person. In this case, the plastic surgeon and the psychotherapist work in close cooperation.