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Exploitation of Patients: Themes in the Psychopathology of Their Therapists

Stuart W. Twemlow, M.D.

Mailing address: 5040 SW 28th Street, Topeka, KS 66614-2320.

Faculty member, Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis, Menninger Foundation; Clinical Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Wichita, KS; Member, Ethics Committee, Kansas Psychiatric Society; Member, Steering Committee on Practice Guidelines, Council on Research, American Psychiatric Association.

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Published Online:30 Apr 2018https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1997.51.3.357

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Abstract

Exploitative therapist-patient relationships are examined to derive psychodynamic themes that result from interaction, as well as independent psychopathology in therapist and patient. Several illustrative clinical vignettes** are provided, together with two clinical axioms of treatment that can help in avoiding such transgressions.

Volume 51
Issue 3

1997, pp. 309–462
Pages 357-375

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Published online 30 April 2018

Published in print 1 July 1997

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Exploitation of Patients: Themes in the Psychopathology of Their Therapists

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