A Psychodynamic Understanding of Modern Medicine: Placing the Person at the Center of Care - Softcover

O'Reilly-Landry, Maureen; Fonagy, Peter; Freeman, Dr. Ruth; Greenberg, Tamara McClintock; Kradin, Richard; Lichtenstein, Albert Benjamin; Luborsky, Ellen; Maunder, Robert; Ehrensaft, Diane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846195195 ISBN 13: 9781846195198

Publisher: CRC Press, 2012

Synopsis

Science and technology have brought about profound changes in the way medicine is practiced. These developments save more lives, but can have a negative impact on psyches and relationships. Thoroughly examining the way medicine is practised in the 21st century, this ground-breaking new book emphasizes the interpersonal, subjective and unconscious processes. It provides important and useful insights into the many ways patients, families and medical practitioners are affected by modern medicine. A Psychodynamic Understanding of Modern Medicine offers profound ways to understand these issues in all their complexity and depth, and demonstrates ways to effectively manage difficulties by drawing on psychoanalytic principles. In so doing, the book directly addresses topics rarely covered from a psychological perspective, such as organ donation, assisted suicide requests, impaired mobility, assisted reproduction, elder abuse, placebos, dialysis units, NICU, general hospital setting, provider-patient relationship and family dynamics with chronic illness. The book is highly recommended to all who are involved with modern medicine. Medical practitioners will have a better means of understanding psychological and interpersonal problems that present themselves in various medical settings. Psychologists and psychiatrists will be more able to intervene when problems occur, including when they involve the interaction between practitioner and patient or family. It is also illuminating reading for students with an interest in medical anthropology, and social and narrative medicine, and for nurses and medical social workers.

About this title

About the Author:

Maureen O'Reilly-Landry Assistant Clinical Professor of Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry), Columbia University College of Physicians, New York, USA

Review:

This book is in my view essential reading, not only for health professionals but also for psychotherapists, counsellors and psychologists. It addresses psychological challenges related to interventions such as for example organ transplants, assisted suicide and chronic illness, by authors at the cutting edge of new developments. The language and psychodynamic concepts used are of the present era with Freud mentioned in context and the work of Bowlby, Mary Ainsworth and Peter Fonagy having a central position. Vivian de Villiers - Contemporary Psychotherapy Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1846195195
• ISBN 13: 9781846195198
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264