Disaster during Psychiatric Treatment: An Intrapsychic Problem for the Physician

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Abstract
Medical personnel may be ill-equipped to handle emotional reactions to disasters occurring in practice. Medical training leads to an unrealistic image of the good, infallible and successful physician, while placing too little emphasis on the inevitability of apparent failure. Reactions to such situations can be considered as gross stress reactions which may result in defensive therapeutic behaviour, or to career-line changes of reduced clinical responsibility. It is suggested that a more rational position is available which would relieve guilt and promote a healthier response.

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