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A Contribution to the Philosophy of medicineThe Basic Models of the Doctor-Patient Relationship
THOMAS S. SZASZ, M.D.;
MARC H. HOLLENDER, M.D.
AMA Arch Intern Med. 1956;97(5):585-592.
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INTRODUCTION
When a person leaves the culture in which he was born and raised and migrates to another, he usually experiences his new social setting as something strange—and in some ways threatening—and he is stimulated to master it by conscious efforts at understanding. To some extent every immigrant to the United States reacts in this manner to the American scene. Similarly, the American tourist in Europe or South America "scrutinizes" the social setting which is taken for granted by the natives. To scrutinize—and criticize—the pattern of other peoples' lives is obviously both common and easy. It also happens, however, that people exposed to cross cultural experiences turn their attention to the very customs which formed the social matrix of their lives in the past. Lastly, to study the "customs" which shape and govern one's day-to-day life is most difficult of all.1
In many ways the psychoanalyst is like a
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Author Affiliations
Bethesda, Md.; Chicago
Footnotes
Received for publication Aug. 17, 1955.
The opinions or assertions contained herein are the private ones of the writers, and are not to be construed as official or reflecting the view of the Navy Department or the Naval Service at large.
Commander (MC), U. S. N. R.; Department of Psychiatry, U. S. Naval Hospital, National Naval Medical Center; Staff Member, Institute for Psychoanalysis, Chicago, on leave of absence (Dr. Szasz), and Staff Member, Institute for Psychoanalysis, and Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Illinois College of Medicine (Dr. Hollender).
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