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Research ArticleOpen accessIn the author namesA Case Vignette and Review of Maladaptive Denial and Related Ethical IssuesMerideth Prevost, Wendy H. Gerstein, Natalie M. Salas et al.Maladaptive denial is a pathological reaction to the symptoms, signs or diagnosis of a physical illness. The dominant response is persistent denial of having the physical disorder. Maladaptive denial typically results in the inability of the patient to provide informed consent to treatment due to the refusal to acknowledge an underlying disease process. This pathologic behavior exposes the affected individual … …Current Research in Medicine, Vol. 7, Issue 1 · 12 Nov 2016 · 7,825 accessesView PDF Cite

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