Applying Psychoanalysis in Medical Care

✍ Scribed by Harvey Schwartz (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 215
• Series: IPA in the Community
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Applying Psychoanalysis in Medical Care describes the many ways that analysts interact with the medical world and make meaningful contributions to the care of a variety of patients.

Clinicians with a deep psychoanalytic understanding of our vulnerabilities, fears and hopes are well suited to participate in the care of our body. This book brings together contributions from caregivers who have dedicated themselves to deeply knowing their patients, from prenatal care, pediatrics, oncology, and palliative care. The chapters are rich with moving clinical vignettes that demonstrate both the power and gracefulness of dynamic listening and insight.

This book will be valuable reading for psychoanalysts as well as practitioners and students in medicine, psychology, and the social work disciplines.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Endorsements
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of
Contents
List of contributors
Series Foreword
IPA in Health Committee
Introduction
1. An incentive to use psychoanalytic psychosomatics in everyday medicine
2. At a Crossroads: The Psychoanalytic Model and the Medical Model
3. On Becoming a Parent: When the Psychoanalyst Meets the Front-Line Professionals Involved in the Perinatal Period
4. Cruel Fate
5. Day Hospital Intensive Care for Patients with Eating Disorders
6. Eating Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence: An Interdisciplinary Approach
7. Psychoanalysis and Psycho-oncology: How Each Specialty Enriches the Other
8. Psychodynamic Contributions to Palliative Care Patients and their Family Members
9. How a Lack of Human Connection May Lead to Dehumanization and Addiction
10. Psychoanalytic Approaches to the Skin Patient
11. The Balint Group: The Arc of the Enduring Bridge between Psychoanalysis and Medicine
Index