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Supervision for work with overdose and deliberate self harm patients — a psychodynamic approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Emily Finch  and
Rosalind Ramsay
Emily Finch
Affiliation:
University College Hospital, Accident and Outpatient Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6AU
Rosalind Ramsay
Affiliation:
University College Hospital, Accident and Outpatient Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6AU
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The anxiety of staff working alone with overdose and deliberate self harm patients can be high, and demands more recognition. In assessing and treating such patients, staff often feel that they are being required to take responsibility for someone's future in the face of an enactment of extreme despair. This article looks at one way to deal with such anxiety.

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Trainees' forum
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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 15 , Issue 11 , November 1991 , pp. 681 - 682
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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1991
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