SEMINAR TRAINING FOR CONTRACEPTIVE CARE – THE BODY AND THE MIND (TOLERANCE)

The most important skill that doctors learn in seminars is to tolerate not knowing. Neither the patient nor the docor has the truth, which has been described as ‘a reality that exists in between; in between two people seeking it; in between psychoanalysis, sociology, psychology, economics and religion . . . truth can be seen or glimpsed, not possessed’ (Symington, 1986). Psychosexual doctors learn to stay in ignorance with their patients, searching for a glimpse of the truth, for as T.S. Elliott (1954) says in his poem East Coker

In order to arrive at what you know

You must go by a way which is a way of ignorance.

In order to possess what you do not possess

You must go by the way of dispossession.

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