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- The Very Important Patient (VIP) presents unique challenges for psychiatrists due to their status, which can create emotional responses and treatment obstacles for the psychiatrist.
- Issues like boundary violations, irregular scheduling, and problems related to transference and countertransference often arise during the treatment of VIP patients.
- The article discusses the dynamics of treating VIP patients and suggests various therapeutic strategies that psychiatrists can use to effectively manage these situations.
Article Abstract
The Very Important Patient poses specific challenges to the treating psychiatrist. Whether it is fame, money, power or position that creates the VIP status, this type of patient can elicit similar feelings within the psychiatrist and create various treatment barriers. Boundary violations, accompanying entourage, presentation of gifts, devaluation, scheduling irregularities and transference/countertransference issues are some of the concerns that may arise within the psychiatric treatment of the VIP patient. This article will review the treatment dynamics created by the VIP patient as well as the approaches that the psychiatrist can utilize in a therapeutic manner.
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