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From Detached Concern to Empathy : Humanizing Medical Practice.

Physicians recognize the importance of patients' emotions in healing yet believe their own emotional responses represent lapses in objectivity. Patients complain that physicians are too detached. Halpern argues that by empathizing with patients, rather than detaching, physicians can best help t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford University Press, USA 2001.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Intro
  • Contents
  • One. Failures of Emotional Communication in Medical Practice
  • The Case of Ms. G.
  • Emotional Irrationality
  • Overview of the Book
  • Two. Managing Emotions as a Professional Ideal
  • Detachment to Avoid the Errors of Sympathy
  • The Tradition of Sympathy
  • The Ideal of Objectivity
  • Avoiding Emotional Errors
  • Emotions and Cognition
  • Three. Emotional Reasoning
  • Associational Linking
  • Gut Feelings
  • Emotional Inertia
  • Moods and Temperament
  • The Strategic Nature of Emotions
  • Four. The Concept of Clinical Empathy
  • Clinical Empathy as Detached Insight
  • Aesthetics and the Origins of the Concept of Empathy
  • Psychoanalytic Views of Empathy as Affective Merging
  • A Model of Clinical Empathy as Emotional Reasoning
  • Five. Respecting Patient Autonomy: From Non-interference to Empathy
  • Respecting Autonomy: Beyond Non-interference
  • Beyond Negative Autonomy: Kant on Deliberative Freedom
  • Autonomy versus Detachment
  • Suffering, Empathy, and the Interpersonal Basis of Autonomy
  • Kantian Theory and Positive Obligations to Share Ends
  • The Complex Relationship Between Empathy and Respecting Autonomy
  • Six. Cultivating Empathy in Medical Practice
  • From Certainty to Curiosity
  • Emotional Irrationality Revisited: Finding the Therapeutic Opportunity
  • Regaining Mental Freedom
  • Non-Abandonment
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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