Psychiatric assessment of penile implant recipient. Preliminary study.

Twenty-four post-penile implantation patients and 13 partners, who had not been subjected to formal psychiatric screening prior to surgery, were given psychiatric follow-up by interview in order to evaluate postoperative psychologic adjustment in a "natural" control group. No subject had spontaneous complaints. One subject appeared to have poor psychologic adjustment, but from the remaining participants there was elicted only minor or no concerns. Two patients and partners found their expectations exceeded. It is preliminarily concluded that penile implantation is a psychologically safe procedure and that extensive routine psychiatric screening is unwarranted. Further studies to confirm this conclusion are proposed.