title: [Beyond boredom: the effort to make a patient interesting].
abstract: The doctors' emotional reaction towards the patients has an impact on the doctor-patient relationship. This article focuses on a particular emotion, boredom which is evoked by certain patients. By means of a case vignette, this phenomenon is elucidated and confronted with the psycho-analytical concept of "pensée opératoire", and ways are identified to raise the interest in patients.
authors.affiliation: Service de psychiatrie de liaison, Département de psychiatrie, CHUV et PMU, Lausanne. christian.marin@chuv.ch
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Marin
mesh_terms: D001887:Boredom; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009042:Motivation; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D012649:Self Concept; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000523:psychology*