Halpern, Jodi, <br/><br/>
From detached concern to empathy :  humanizing medical practice / 
Jodi Halpern. 
 - xx, 165 pages ;  25 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-161) and index. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0195111192 9780195111194 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>00057995 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Medical personnel and patient<br/>Medical personnel--Attitudes<br/>Empathy.<br/>Emotions.<br/>Physician-Patient Relations<br/>Attitude of Health Personnel
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>R727.3.  / H3128 2001 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>610.696