Communication Skills That Heal
eBook - ePub

Communication Skills That Heal

A Practical Approach to a New Professionalism in Medicine

  1. 176 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Communication Skills That Heal

A Practical Approach to a New Professionalism in Medicine

About this book

This book focuses on uncovering and challenging the many myths and fixed images about communication and healing. It hopes to raise awareness, and stimulate, provoke, and offer alternative perspectives that will lead healthcare practitioners to communicate differently with their patients.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Frontispiece
  7. Preface
  8. About the author
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Introduction
  11. 1 The problem: ‘it’s just a lack of time’
  12. 2 Seeing the whole
  13. 3 Resistance
  14. 4 But listening is art
  15. 5 But there is no time for listening
  16. 6 But listening is simple
  17. 7 But listening is so passive
  18. 8 But listening leaves me without control
  19. 9 But there’s no room for emotions inside this white coat
  20. 10 What to listen for: psychological medicine
  21. 11 What to listen for: trauma
  22. 12 What to listen for: shame
  23. 13 What to listen for: suffering
  24. 14 What to use: metaphor and simile
  25. 15 What to use: ritual
  26. 16 What to attend to: boundaries
  27. 17 What to use: psychotherapy
  28. 18 Conclusion: reclaiming the white coat
  29. Index