via Medical News Today
Just over a century after Freud 'invented' sexuality as a leading cause of psychiatric symptoms, a new survey shows that the majority of young psychiatrists feel uncomfortable about asking their patients about their sex lives and regard it as a subject best avoided.
In 1905, Freud published Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality forcing the discussion of sex drive and the impact on mental health of early sexual experience into the public arena.
Now, however, psychiatrists admit they are too embarrassed to mention sexuality or enquire about sexual problems in consultations with patients, fearing that they might be misunderstood or that such questions might be upsetting.
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