title: Pushing through solid rock: words of wisdom for clinicians from four patients with life-threatening conditions.
abstract: Four subjects living with profoundly debilitating and life-threatening illnesses reflect on how psychotherapy has contributed to their ability to cope and survive. With frankness and eloquence they address issues related to cancer, heart disease, fibromyalgia, and AIDS.
authors.affiliation: Private Practice, Northampton, Massachusetts 01061, USA. robzucker@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zucker
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D018802:Patient-Centered Care; D010820:Physicians; D011570:Psychiatry