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Transplantation

Psychological Implications of Changes in Body Image

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Psychonephrology 1

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Among the reasons why transplants are of interest to psychiatrists and, in fact, to anyone concerned with psychological issues is that they touch on the phenomena of acute and chronic stress and of alteration of the body image.

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Castelnuovo-Tedesco, P. (1981). Transplantation. In: Levy, N.B. (eds) Psychonephrology 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0357-0_20

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