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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786977703321

Titolo

Chimes of time [[electronic resource] ] : wounded health professionals : essays on recovery / / edited by Bruce D. Kirkcaldy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, : Sidestone Press, c2013

ISBN

90-8890-178-3

90-8890-177-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (295 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KirkcaldyBruce D

Disciplina

610.6

Soggetti

Medical personnel - Psychology

Medical care - Psychological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: When, why and how healers can profit from their own vulnerability?; 2 The wounded healer in literature; 3 Before and after psychosis: Is there anything positive to be gained from the experience?; 4 Steps towards better collaboration between stakeholders to promote mental health and to alleviate disablement due to mental illness; 5 A contemporary shamanistic initiatory crisis; 6 Schizophrenia - Prodromal signs and symptoms - A personal perspective; 7 Creativity: A healthy side of madness; 8 'Intoxicating happiness' - the blazing trail of mania

9 Cancer: An illness, nothing more, nothing less10 Recreating self: A personal journey; 11 On the meaning of self-knowledge, creativity and personal resources in a case of coping with cancer; 12 Scars of the wounded healer; 13 Identification and separation - Career choice following parental death in adolescence; 14 Workaholism; 15 Lost in shadows?; 16 Empathy, woundedness, burn out, and how to love being a therapist; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book is an ambitious project uniting various fields in a multidisciplinary venture drawing on academics and clinicians from medicine, psychology and educational sciences. The interdisciplinary approach has assembled medical, educational and health specialists - many of whom are a rare assemble of outstanding academics and clinicians - with scholarly contributions from many different countries



and institutes.It provides a plethora of essays and reviews by clinicians and academics, many contributions self-confessional, disclosing details of their own personal pain and suffering with critica