Various clinical situations are described to illustrate the specific psychological assumptions toward which the psychiatric consultant is drawn in the course of daily liaison work in the general hospital. The purpose is to stress the usefulness and relevance of hitherto known models of consultation and models of patient-doctor relationships.
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