Problems with Patients or American Forests

Problems with Patients: Managing Complicated Transactions

Author: Kingsley Norton

When patient meets doctor, as well as engaging in a transaction with a clinical purpose, they react to one another as people. Their personalities and ability to form relationships in general also affect the professional interaction. As with other relationships, things can go wrong. The outcome of the consultation may not be what either individual hoped for or intended. Norton and Smith explore the factors that can cause problems in the doctor-patient relationship. Within a model studied from three theoretical perspectives, the authors emphasize the often unconscious personal aspects of the doctor-patient interaction, and offer concrete advice to help doctors manage their dealings with patients.This fresh look at an important but often neglected aspect of health care will be vital reading for all doctors, psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, social workers, medical students, health care administrators, and patients' rights advocates.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	Doctor-patient interaction	1
2	The clinical transaction	19
3	Interpersonal influences	37
4	The influence of past relationships	54
5	Contextual influences	67
6	Managing complicated clinical transactions	84
7	Interventions in complicated clinical transactions	104
8	Implications for the clinical setting	128
9	Implications for training	144
	Appendix I: Clinical phenomena related to 'problem patients'	155
	Appendix II: Personality disorder	161
	References	165
	Index	172

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American Forests: Nature,Culture,and Politics

Author: Char Miller

"There is great value to bringing these peices together. The line-up of authors is impressive indeed."—Thomas Cox, author of The Park Builders and This Well-Wooded Land

Author Biography: Char Miller is professor of history at Trinity University. He has published extensively on U.S. forestry and is the author of Gifford Pinchot: The Evolution of An American Conservationist.

Contributors: Thomas G. Alexander, Arnold W. Bolle, David Clary, Richard L. Clow, Stephen Haycox, Nancy Langston, Char Miller, Donald J. Pisani, John Reiger, William G. Robbins, Dennis Roth, Hal K. Rothman, Susan Schrepfer, Harold K. Steen, Robert E. Wolfe