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Download or read book Don't Lose Your Patients! written by Herbert S. Strean and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 1998 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1. a good therapist is a good telephone operator 2. the first interview: the most crucial one 3. understanding the honeymoon phase of treatment and becoming a competent honeymooner 4. the first treatment crisis: when threats to quit treatment are common 5. mishandling of situational crises and the patient's readiness to quit treatment 6. how subtle resistances of the patient are reinforced by the therapist: a major factor in patient dropout 7. further thoughts on countertransference reactions: how they can influence the patient's wish to stop treatment 8. the finale: the dynamics of quitting treatment: conributions by therapist and patient.