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Cosmetic surgery should be 'last resort'Date: 21/06/2007 09:13:42
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Many people opting to have plastic surgery do so because of a misconception of how they see themselves, so counselling to address this issue should be the first priority in a person's treatment, a consultant psychologist has claimed.
Ingrid Collins, who works for the London Medical Centre, believes that tackling a woman's self esteem should be the first step in addressing someone's desire to go under the surgeon's knife.
And in a separate interview with BBC News, Ms Collins states that cosmetic surgery should be a last resort after the patient has tried counselling and hypnotherapy.
She claims that women are too heavily influenced by media images of the 'perfect' body shape: "These days, we're subjected to so many media images. And we are so influenced by the visual image. So much more so than by any other senses – the visual image is so important because we remember it so much more.
"We look at the airbrushed images of supermodels and we see that as the norm.
"It's important to understand that women can be all sorts of shapes and sizes and be totally happy with their body.
"Their wish to opt for surgery is not necessarily a lot to do with being too big, too small, too thin or too fat, but a lot more to do with how they see themselves.
"That is what needs to be focused upon first," she asserted.
The comments come as the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (Baaps) criticised the launch of a website offering free breast augmentations to women.
The myfreeimplants.com site allows people to post photos of themselves in order to attract men to donate money to pay for their surgery.
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