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The term “psychotherapy” is extensive, and referring to a privileged physician-patient relationship. The physician, in particular a specialist, stands as a cognitive and secure reference point for the patient. The MS patient is unconsciously incorporated, with this physician or with the institution to which the specialist belongs, after the first favorable encounter, into a “family”, with specific connotations of privacy, continuity, confidence in the information he or she receives, and trust in the relationship. Within this “family” the physician and patients must learn to live together and decodification of symptoms and phantasies of recovery can be performed. A specific type of psychotherapy is not proposed here, experience of psychoanalysias with these patients being extremely rare.
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Landoni, M.G., Mendozzi, L., Bianchi, S., Locatelli, C. (1988). Psychotherapy in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis. In: Cazzullo, C.L., Caputo, D., Ghezzi, A., Zaffaroni, M. (eds) Virology and Immunology in Multiple Sclerosis: Rationale for Therapy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73032-0_34
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