A Patient's Handbook as An Aid in Psychotherapy
Hoffman, H.
Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey 61: 373-374
1964
ISSN/ISBN: 0025-7524 PMID: 14180709 Document Number: 17836
Psychotherapy has many specific teacher-pupil relationships. Therefore "a textbook for the course" may be appropriate. A 100-page typed manual written by the author was given to 125 patients, mostly with anxiety and depression, as a psychotherapeutic adjuvant. Such a manual, offered to the patient, should be written by the patient's own therapist and seen by the patient as a personality extension of his physician. I feel that time and money were saved and that more productive stimuli were applied to patients.
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