From detached concern to empathy : humanizing medical practice / / Jodi Halpern

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910816611803321
• Autore: Halpern Jodi
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001
• ISBN: 0-19-026772-0; 1-282-54367-9; 9786612543678; 0-19-974771-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (188 p.)
• Disciplina: 610.69/6
• Soggetti: Medical personnel and patient; Medical personnel - Attitudes; Empathy
• 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 (p. 149-161) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""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""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""S""; ""T""; ""W""
• Sommario/riassunto: Physicians recognise the importance of patients' emotions in healing, yet believe their own emotional responses represent lapses in objectivity. Patients complain that physicians are too detached. The book argues that by empathising with patients, rather than detaching, physicians can best help them. Yet there is no consistent view of what, precisely, clinical empathy involves. This book challenges the traditional assumption that empathy is either purely intellectual or an expression of sympathy.