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All medicine is practiced through interaction with patients. This is particularly obvious in psychiatry, where we consciously make use of the doctor–patient relationship as a therapeutic tool.
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Poole, R., Higgo, R., Lorenz, T. (2023). Assessment: Interview, History, Physical, and Mental Status Examination. In: IsHak, W.W. (eds) Atlas of Psychiatry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15401-0_6
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