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Publication details [#58134]

Bonnin, Juan Eduardo. 2013. The public, the private and the intimate in doctor–patient communication: Admission interviews at an outpatient mental health care service. Discourse Studies 15 (6) : 687–711.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative failure | context | doctor-patient conversation | institutional context | mental state

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper discusses how doctor–patient admission interviews (to Argentine outpatient mental health care), along public, private, and intimate levels, may experience communicative difficulties due to scale mismatches.