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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kirkcaldy, Bruce D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical personnel--Psychology.

Medical personnel.

Medical care--Psychological aspects.

Medical care.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Sidestone Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-8890-178-3

90-8890-177-5

OCLC:

850161264