Abstract:

Beauty and aesthetics are currently relevant issues. In the aesthetic act, the pursuit of beauty is a quest for the tranquility that rests between the plastic surgeon s hands.Yet, women are driven by the desire to devote themselves to the beauty of their bodies in order to preserve their psychological integrity.The idea that beauty is a remedy and a consolation motivates plastic surgeons to avoid error and catastrophe.So, what place does psychology have in aesthetic demand and, conversely, what place does plastic surgery have in the psychology of women?An eight-month(8)exploratory study was carried out in various clinics. Seventeen women were included in the study, with a mean age of 34.76 years old. The psychological evaluation took place eight days after the first medical consultation and four months after the cosmetic operation. It included a semi-directive interview and two questionnaires (PQVS, GHQ12) to quantify the dimension of subjective psychological suffering. After the operation, the study showed an improvement in subjective quality of life, satisfaction with physical appearance, social investment, and better sleep. Finally, the study endorses the fact that the success of surgical treatment is associated with the artistic gesture adopted by the doctor in surgery and the favorable relationship maintained with the patient. Cosmetic surgery seems to contribute to a complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being. Ultimately, beauty is a therapeutic issue, where the aesthetic surgeon artfully performs, an operation on a woman in pain, with the aim of providing her more psychic than bodily aesthetics.

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