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Chapter 8.What Is Collaboration?

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Introduction | Resistance | Transference | Countertransference | Provoked Emotion: The Geiger Counter Effect | Splitting | Boundary Violations | Timing of Interventions | Management of Defenses | Advice | Support | Final Thoughts

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Most healthcare services are delivered from a caregiver to a suffering recipient. The caregiver prescribes or orders a treatment. The sufferer accepts and assents. In this one-way process, the patient is expected to agree to the treatment decisions of the expert professional, a posture usually termed “compliance.” For example, a patient is directed to take all of the tablets of a prescribed drug. (Never mind that only half the prescriptions written are ever filled and that patients often fail to finish all the doses in the bottle.) In this medical model, the patient is passive.

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