The Use of Bibliotherapy and Mindfulness Meditation in a Psychiatric Setting
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This is the report of a somewhat standard psychiatric case which employed a treatment approach that is unusual in the psychotherapeutic literature and in my own practice as a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. It concerns a 44 year old male, Mr. B, who was referred for psychiatric treatment by a psychoanalyst who had evaluated him for the workman's compensation board after he had suffered an industrial disability.
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