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Family Therapy in Serious and Terminal Illness

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The seriously ill or terminal patient cannot be approached as an isolated individual without considerations for the many existing bonds between the patient, his family, his social group, and the medical institution and its staff members. Illness and death do not take place in a vacuum, but are intimately intertwined with social, family, and intraindividual dynamic processes.

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  1. University of California, San Francisco Medical School, Fresno Campus, USA

    Claus Bahne Bahnson (Clinical Professor of Family Medicine and Psychiatry)

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  1. Académie de Paris, Université René Descartes, Paris, France

    Pierre Pichot

  2. University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Peter Berner , R. Wolf  & K. Thau ,  & 

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Bahnson, C.B. (1985). Family Therapy in Serious and Terminal Illness. In: Pichot, P., Berner, P., Wolf, R., Thau, K. (eds) Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Mental Retardation, and Geriatric Psychiatry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9367-6_72

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