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The article explains how treatment and diagnosis are offered in psychoanalitical interviews at a general hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This offer is often contradictory with the patients' expectations, thus rejecting them in communicative terms.
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The issue discussed here is a key to negotiate expectations between patients and psychotherapists in medical contexts, as the latter might attempt to explicitly include patients while communicatively rejecting them.
Dr Juan Eduardo Bonnin
CONICET
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This page is a summary of: Treating without diagnosis: Psychoanalysis in medical settings in Argentina, Communication & Medicine, January 2015, Equinox Publishing,
DOI: 10.1558/cam.v11i1.26446.
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