title: Naming of patients by therapists.
abstract: A self-report questionnaire to elicit the patients' preferences for how they were to be addressed was given to 102 in-patients. Of 94 replies, 90 asked to be called by their first name.
authors.affiliation: Woden Valley Hospital, A.C.T.
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Rosenman
authors.forename: R D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Goldney
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007062:Identification, Psychological; D008297:Male; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012649:Self Concept