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Psychotherapy patients: are they “the worried well”?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Peter Amies
Peter Amies*
Affiliation:
East Wiltshire Health Care, 31 Wood Street Swindon SN1 4AN
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Patients waiting for psychotherapy show high levels of morbidity and distress from psychiatric symptoms and a high frequency of personality disorder diagnoses. They constitute a group at risk of completed suicide. Local NHS provision is less than half the minimum amount of treatment needed.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , March 1996 , pp. 153 - 156
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