title: Interpersonal psychotherapy: a communications perspective.
abstract: The psychosocial sequences involved in becoming a human being, becoming a patient, and becoming healed are rooted in the need for contact with a parent or surrogate and in the incorporation of his cultural system through the adoption of his communication system.
mesh_terms: D000069:Acculturation; D003142:Communication; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012803:Sick Role; D012925:Social Conformity