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The empathic healer : an endagered species? /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bennett, Michael J. (Michael Jay)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Diego, Calif. : Academic Press, [2001]
Series:Practical resources for the mental health professional.
Subjects:
Psychotherapy > methods.
Empathy.
Physician-Patient Relations.
Table of Contents:
  • The health care system has lost its heart
  • Introduction
  • Managed health care
  • From physician-healer to physician-scientist
  • A working definition of clinical empathy
  • Empathy from 10,000 feet
  • Empathy and the arts
  • The evolving health care system
  • Outline of the book
  • Clinical empathy: reform or relic?
  • References
  • The history of empathy in mental health care
  • Origins: feeling into a work of art
  • Empathy as a therapeutic strategy
  • Empathy and experiential healing
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Empathy and the listening healer
  • Listening and reciprocity
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Empathy: facilitators and barriers
  • Sympathy and empathy
  • The patient
  • The therapist
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Empathy and ideology
  • The greeks had a word for it
  • Dualism and mental illness
  • Monism: the dominance of brain
  • Monism: the dominance of mind
  • The pendulum swings again
  • Converging trends
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Empathy and the brain
  • Psychosomatics
  • Neo-darwinism and genetic plasticity
  • Genetic plasticity and empathy
  • From circuits to brain maps
  • Empathy and the biology of memory
  • Consciousness: is it overrated?
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Treaters and healers
  • The empathic treater
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Empathy and the focus of psychotherapy
  • Psychotherapy in organized systems of care
  • The concept of a focus in psychotherapy
  • Focus and complex disorders
  • Finding the focus: the importance of a formulation
  • Focus and brevity.
  • Formulation and clinical ideology
  • The science of formulation
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Focal psychotherapy
  • The process of assessment
  • Why now?
  • What now?
  • What impasse must be overcome?
  • What next?
  • Conclusions: empathy and focal psychotherapy
  • References
  • Empathy redux
  • Features of the healing environment
  • Marriage and the healing environment
  • The interpersonal environment and the immune system
  • Healing in a technological era
  • Virtual empathy
  • Preserving an endangered species
  • Empathy redux.