| Descript |
1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 |
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 |
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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 |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Medical rehabilitation.
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Medicine, Physical.
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Healing.
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Adaptability (Psychology)
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Physicians -- psychology
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Adaptation, Psychological
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Disease -- psychology
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Rehabilitation
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Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine
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Recovery of Function
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MEDICAL -- Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. |
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Adaptability (Psychology) (OCoLC)fst00796466 |
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Healing. (OCoLC)fst00952704 |
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Medical rehabilitation. (OCoLC)fst01014582 |
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Medicine, Physical. (OCoLC)fst01015311 |
| Alt Author |
Kirkcaldy, Bruce D.
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| Alt Title |
Wounded health professionals, essays on recovery |
| ISBN |
9789088901775 (electronic bk.) |
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9088901775 (electronic bk.) |
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1299559077 (ebk) |
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9781299559073 (ebk) |
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9789088900945 |
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9088900949 |
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