The Heart of Being Helpful

Empathy and the Creation of a Healing Presence

Peter R. Breggin (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2006
Springer Publishing Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8261-0274-4 (ISBN)

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Based on several years of the author's clinical experience as a psychiatrist and a therapist, this book illustrates the importance of developing a therapeutic bond - or healing presence - between helping professionals and their clients. It provides vignettes, case studies, and personal insights to help develop empathy in therapeutic relationships.

Based on more than 30 years of clinical experience as a psychiatrist and a therapist, Dr. Breggin's book, now available in an affordable paperback, illustrates the importance of developing a therapeutic bond--or healing presence--between helping professionals and their clients. The author provides useful vignettes, case studies, and personal insights to help both beginning and experienced therapists develop more empathy in therapeutic relationships. He asserts that the first step toward effective treatment is empathic self-transformation in the therapist. It is empathy and self-transformation that lie at the heart of being helpful. Topics include vulnerability, nurturing, helplessness, forgiveness, and spirituality, as well as tips for working with clients in extreme emotional crises, children and families, and patients of culturally diverse backgrounds.

Peter R. Breggin, MD, is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and former full-time consultant at NIMH. He is in private practice in Ithaca, New York, and the author of dozens of scientific articles and more than twenty books.

Acknowledgements

Creation of Healing Presence

Being in Someone Else's Presence

Acceptance of Our Own Personal Inadequacy

Nurturing of Human Nature

Does Empathy Hurt Too Much?

Does Empathy Make Us Too Vulnerable?

Beyond the Quick and Easy Cure

From Fear and Helplessness to Love

How to Help in Extreme Emotional Crises

Creation of Healing Aura in Families

Helping People Who Seem Very Different from Us

Empathy and the Reform Spirit

Finding Ourselves Through Principled Living

Empathy and Forgiveness for Grievous Misdeeds

Empathy for Children and Childhood

Importance of Empathy for Ourselves

Grateful Healer

Is Love Enough?

Index

Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	163 x 226 mm
Gewicht	286 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
ISBN-10	0-8261-0274-3 / 0826102743
ISBN-13	978-0-8261-0274-4 / 9780826102744
Zustand	Neuware