A psychodynamic understanding of modern medicine : placing the person at the center of care / edited by Maureen O'Reilly-Landry ; foreword by Myron L. Weisfeldt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

O'Reilly-Landry, Maureen.

Samuel Bellet Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Patient-Centered Care.

Patient Satisfaction.

Professional-Patient Relations.

Social Medicine.

Medicine and psychology.

Medical Subjects:

Patient-Centered Care.

Patient Satisfaction.

Professional-Patient Relations.

Social Medicine.

Physical Description:

xiii, 233 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Radcliffe Pub., [2012]

Summary:

This book is written in terms that will be familiar to practicing physicians, nurses, medical technicians, and other professionals and students in medicine. Using a case-based presentation with many vignettes, clinicians describe psychological and interpersonal dimensions of patient interactions. An opening chapter introduces contemporary psychodynamic concepts, and later chapters are grouped according to themes, such as the patient's subjective experience and medical providers' relationships with patients and family caregivers. Specific topics considered include chronic illness in adolescents, organ transplants, and caregiver grief in dementia. The book can be used as a supplemental text in graduate courses in clinical psychology, health psychology, psychiatry, nursing, and social work, and in psychoanalytic training programs. Editor O'Reilly-Landry teaches at Columbia University. The book is published by Radcliffe Publishing, UK, and distributed in the US by BookMasters. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

The interpersonal and psychological dimensions of modern medicine / Maureen O'Reilly-Landry

Contemporary psychodynamic concepts and modern medicine / Ellen B. Luborsky

Creating security by exploring the personal meaning of chronic illness in adolescent patients / Norka Malberg and Peter Fonagy

Mobility matters: the intrapsychic and interpersonal dimensions of walking / Ruth H. Livingston

When the body fails us: living with a chronic illness / Patricia B. Vitacco

Managing patients with orofacial pain: psychodynamic explorations / Ruth Freeman

The empty chair: a psychodynamic formulation of a dialysis unit death / Maureen O'Reilly-Landry

The placebo response: an attachment strategy to counteract emotional stress? / Richard Kradin

Adult attachment and health: the interpersonal dance in medical settings / Robert Maunder and Jon Hunter

The antisocial patient in the hospital / Anne Skomorowsky

Assisted suicide / Suzanne Garfinkle and Philip R. Muskin

Balint group process: optimizing the doctor-patient relationship / Jeffery L. Sternlieb ... [et al.]

Until death us do part: secrets at the end of life / Janet Plotkin-Bornstein

The process of acquiring and keeping an organ transplant / Peter Shapiro

The 'birth other' in assisted reproduction / Diane Ehrensaft

Man and machine: the relational aspects of organ replacement / Maureen O'Reilly-Landry

The ambiguous loss of dementia: a relational view of complicated grief in caregivers / Pauline Boss

Creating tolerance for reflective space: the challenges to thinking and feeling in a neonatal intensive care unit / Susan Kraemer and Zina Steinberg

When the patient is gay: psychodynamic reflections on navigating the medical system / Shara Sand

The psychodynamics of elder abuse / Tamara McClintock Greenberg.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Samuel Bellet Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781846195198

1846195195

OCLC:

774495415