Marital intimacy and medical practice.
Recent studies of marriage focusing on the development of marital intimacy and its role in the family as it influences emotional and physical health are reviewed. Marital pathology is increasingly presented in diverse and often covert ways to almost all physicians. Specific suggestions for the detection of marital discord in medical practice and its management will be presented.
D005194:Family Practice; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008388:Marital Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D012017:Referral and Consultation