Book Reviews : Problems with Patients-Managing Complicated Transactions. By KINGSLEY NORTON AND SAM SMITH. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994, 174 pp, $54.95

Foreword Preface Acknowledgements 1. Doctor-patient interaction 2. The clinical transaction 3. Interpersonal influences 4. The influences of past relationships 5. Contextual influences 6. Managing complicated clinical transactions 7. Interventions in complicated clinical transactions 8. Implications for the clinical settings 9. Implications for training Appendices Bibliography Index.

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