The price of a gift: An approach to receiving gifts from patients in psychiatric practice

Harvard Review of Psychiatry

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 43-51

  Brendel, David H ^a   Chu, James ^a   Radden, Jennifer ^a   Leeper, Howard ^a   Pope, Harrison G ^a   Samson, Jacqueline ^a   Tsimprea, Gail ^a   Bodkin, J Alexander ^a  

^a MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundaries; Ethics; Gifts; Pragmatism; Psychiatry

Indexed keywords

AGORAPHOBIA; ANTICIPATION; ANXIETY DISORDER; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEPRESSION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FAMILY; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL PATIENT; MODEL; MORALITY; PANIC; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONALISM; PSYCHOSOCIAL WITHDRAWAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; ETHICS COMMITTEES; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; GIFT GIVING; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY; REJECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SYMBOLISM; TRANSFERENCE (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 34047113419     PISSN: 10673229     EISSN: 14657309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10673220701298399     Document Type: Review

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