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Unresolved Grief Presenting with Features of a Negative Therapeutic Reaction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Anne M. Nightingale
Anne M. Nightingale*
Affiliation:
Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh EH10 5HF
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Abstract

A 44-year-old depressed widow in psychodynamic psychotherapy suffered repeated relapses of symptoms following improvement. This was seen as a negative therapeutic reaction.

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Brief Reports
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 155 , Issue 6 , December 1989 , pp. 862 - 864
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1989 

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