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“They’re not the type of people like me self-referring to mental health,” he said, adding that he felt his father displayed narcissistic tendencies and lack of self-reflection.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2025

Since the foundation opened, there have been referrals every day from health trusts and those self-referring.

From BBC • Jul. 20, 2025

When sentencing Judge Anthony Bate credited Reynolds with his early guilty plea, and for self-referring himself for rehabilitation.

From BBC • Feb. 1, 2024

Reviewing The Play About the Baby, which premiered at the Almeida in 1998, Michael Billington in the Guardian suggested that Albee was self-referring and cannibalising his own work.

From The Guardian • Sep. 18, 2016