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Death threats to psychiatrists
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018
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Threats made by patients to harm, or even kill, their psychiatrists, may cause great stress to both the doctor and his or her family. This potential source of anxiety is seldom discussed by the profession and is a neglected area in the literature, perhaps indicating that denial is a common mechanism used to cope with any fear engendered by such threats.
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