The Patient History

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The Patient History

A theory of illness that requires understanding the patient as a person in process, into whose reality we enter in order to understand how the personality interacts with the dynamics of the illness and refusing to interpret the illness apart from the person experiencing it. We review possible models to apply to an archetypal medical model.

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