From detached concern to empathy : humanizing medical practice /
Halpern, Jodi,
From detached concern to empathy : humanizing medical practice / Jodi Halpern. - xx, 165 pages ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-161) and index.
Failures of Emotional Communication in Medical Practice -- 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 -- Emotional Reasoning -- Associational Linking -- "Gut Feelings" -- Emotional Inertia -- Moods and Temperament -- The Strategic Nature of Emotions -- 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 -- 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 -- Cultivating Empathy in Medical Practice -- From Certainty to Curiosity -- Emotional Irrationality Revisited: Finding the Therapeutic Opportunity -- Regaining Mental Freedom -- Non-Abandonment -- Bibliography -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
0195111192 9780195111194
00057995
Medical personnel and patient
Medical personnel--Attitudes
Empathy.
Emotions.
Physician-Patient Relations
Attitude of Health Personnel
R727.3. / H3128 2001
610.696
From detached concern to empathy : humanizing medical practice / Jodi Halpern. - xx, 165 pages ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-161) and index.
Failures of Emotional Communication in Medical Practice -- 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 -- Emotional Reasoning -- Associational Linking -- "Gut Feelings" -- Emotional Inertia -- Moods and Temperament -- The Strategic Nature of Emotions -- 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 -- 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 -- Cultivating Empathy in Medical Practice -- From Certainty to Curiosity -- Emotional Irrationality Revisited: Finding the Therapeutic Opportunity -- Regaining Mental Freedom -- Non-Abandonment -- Bibliography -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
0195111192 9780195111194
00057995
Medical personnel and patient
Medical personnel--Attitudes
Empathy.
Emotions.
Physician-Patient Relations
Attitude of Health Personnel
R727.3. / H3128 2001
610.696