Chapter 37.Psychotherapy
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The term psychotherapy has a very broad meaning. At its heart, however, the term implies the intent to help another person or persons through the medium of an interpersonal professional relationship. People usually seek or are referred for therapy because they are distressed or are struggling to cope with some major life problem or difficulty. Physical illness is scary, stressful, and at times unimaginably difficult to bear. What must it be like to be told that the tremor you have developed is the first sign of Parkinson’s disease or that the cough that will not go away has been confirmed as lung cancer?
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