{"title":"\"Doctor I would like to die. Please help.\"","authors":"Philip R Muskin","doi":"10.1521/pdps.2025.53.1.001","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The request for hastened death by patients with psychiatric disorders poses a professional conundrum for psychiatrists. Issues of transference and countertransference loom large in such situations. Primitive defense mechanisms, particularly projective identification need to be addressed in understanding the request.</p>","PeriodicalId":38518,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"18-21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Psychodynamic Psychiatry","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1521/pdps.2025.53.1.001","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2025/1/22 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Psychology","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The request for hastened death by patients with psychiatric disorders poses a professional conundrum for psychiatrists. Issues of transference and countertransference loom large in such situations. Primitive defense mechanisms, particularly projective identification need to be addressed in understanding the request.
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