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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

For the past seventy-two hours I had been a guest of Mercy Hospital’s emergency room and both the hospital and I had settled in for the wait. I had my own room, a real hospital bed instead of an ER examination cot, and a menu card for the next day’s meals. I think I need to go to a hospital.” I think…” I started. “I

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UPDATE: Federal Rule to Prevent Surprise Health Care Billing – Application to Clinical Social Workers

Social Work Blog

Providing a GFE to patients is not new to CSWs who, as part of best clinical and ethical practice, routinely discuss services and fees before or during the initial interview with new patients and provide informed consent forms. 50-minute individual psychotherapy session, weekly until otherwise indicated).

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what's love got to do with it?

Clinical Philosophy

In a paper on whether psychotherapy is a form of prostitution, philosopher Rupert Read suggests that therapy is to genuine loving friendship (‘agape’) as prostitution is to erotic love (‘eros’). Is psychotherapy, too, not a more subtle selling of such a fantasy? Laing and Esterson interview her together with her parents.