A Psychodynamic Understanding of Modern Medicine

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-84619-519-8
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 589 g

Science and technology have brought about profound changes in the way medicine is practiced. These developments save more lives, but can have a negative impact on psyches and relationships. Thoroughly examining the way medicine is practised in the 21st century, this ground-breaking new book emphasizes the interpersonal, subjective and unconscious processes. It provides important and useful insights into the many ways patients, families and medical practitioners are affected by modern medicine. A Psychodynamic Understanding of Modern Medicine offers profound ways to understand these issues in all their complexity and depth, and demonstrates ways to effectively manage difficulties by drawing on psychoanalytic principles. In so doing, the book directly addresses topics rarely covered from a psychological perspective, such as organ donation, assisted suicide requests, impaired mobility, assisted reproduction, elder abuse, placebos, dialysis units, NICU, general hospital setting, provider-patient relationship and family dynamics with chronic illness. The book is highly recommended to all who are involved with modern medicine. Medical practitioners will have a better means of understanding psychological and interpersonal problems that present themselves in various medical settings. Psychologists and psychiatrists will be more able to intervene when problems occur, including when they involve the interaction between practitioner and patient or family. It is also illuminating reading for students with an interest in medical anthropology, and social and narrative medicine, and for nurses and medical social workers.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Reilly-Landry, Maureen

Fonagy, Peter

Freeman, Dr. Ruth

Greenberg, Tamara McClintock

Kradin, Richard

Lichtenstein, Albert Benjamin

Luborsky, Ellen

Maunder, Robert

Ehrensaft, Diane

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Dienstleistungssektor & Branchen
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Krankenhausmanagement, Praxismanagement

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword. Preface. About the author. Contributors. Section I: Introduction. The interpersonal and psychological dimensions of modern medicine. Contemporary psychodynamic concepts and modern medicine. Section II: Subjectivity, personal meaning and the medical experience. Creating security by exploring the meaning of illness in adolescent patients. Mobility matters: the intrapsychic and interpersonal dimension of walking. When the body fails: living with a chronic illness. Managing dental patients with oro-facial pain: psychodynamic explorations. The empty chair: a psychodynamic formulation of a dialysis unit death. The placebo response: an attachment strategy that counteracts the effects of emotional stress? Section III: medical provider and patient: mutual influence. Adult attachment and health: the interpersonal dance in medical settings. The antisocial patient in the hospital. Assisted suicide. Optimizing the doctor-patient relationship: Balint group process. Until death do us part: secrets at the end of life. Section IV: relationships borne of technology. The process of acquiring and keeping an organ transplant. The 'birth other' in assisted reproduction. Man and machine: the relational aspects of end stage renal disease. Section V: when a family member is ill. Ambiguous loss in dementia: a relational view of complicated grief in caregivers. Creating tolerance for reflective space: the challenges to thinking and feeling in a NICU. When the patient is gay: psychodynamic reflections on navigating the medical system. The psychodynamics of elder abuse. Index.