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THE PERFECT PATIENT: COGNITIVE-BEHAVIOURAL THERAPY FOR PERFECTIONISM

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2019

Colette R Hirsch
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, London, U.K.
Peter Hayward
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, London, U.K.

Abstract

A case is described in which the patient’s perfectionistic assumptions seemed to play a major role in perpetuating his anxiety and depression. Techniques to deal with perfectionistic assumptions are discussed, and the various effects that perfectionism may have on therapy, both positive and negative, are considered.

Type
Brief Clinical Reports
Copyright
1998 British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies

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