Incorporating Psychotherapeutic Concepts and Interventions Within Medicine

"The purpose of this book is to introduce doctors with an integrative approach based on theory and clinical experience emanating from two fields: western medicine and body psychotherapy. It introduces psychotherapy into medical practice in a very practical way and provides tools and principles for understanding and managing the doctor-patient encounter. This is an impressive, innovative and inspiring book and I highly recommend it to physicians in order to feel better as humans and doctors, and be better doctors for their patients." - Hava Tabenkin, MD, Professor Emerita, Family Medicine, School of Medicine Ben Gurion University, Israel "This is a narrative-based medical guide book, which interlaces encounter stories with medical and psychotherapy knowledge. Physical, psychological, social, and spiritual health chapters are interwoven in a complex artistic, yet practical, design to form new white coats. These suits suit us, evolving human healers." - Iris Shoshani Helvitz, MD, Family Medicine and Palliative Care, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel "A groundbreaking book that will change the way you think of sickness and health, and of the doctor-patient relationship. Written fluently, theoretical and practical, giving doctors tools for better understanding of their patients as well as themselves, deepening and expanding theoretical and clinical knowledge of the body-mind relationship in a feasible way. This book will improve not only medical care but also make doctors feel better." - Zohar Shani Gershon, MD, Family Medicine, Bar Ilan University, Israel

Shamit Kadosh, MD is a family physician and practicing psychotherapist. She is currently a lecturer at Bar Ilan University (Medicine) and the Shiluv Institute (Psychotherapy). She headed a training program for the residents in family medicine in the Department of Family Medicine in North Israel. Asaf Rolef Ben-Shahar, PhD is a psychotherapist, author, and trainer. He founded a number of psychotherapy programs in Israel and the UK. He is the author of four books and numerous papers about psychotherapy. Asaf was editor-in-chief of The International Body Psychotherapy Journal.

INTRODUCTION; PART I: The doctor as a human being, incorporating a doctor-centred approach; Chapter 1. The price of caring; Chapter 2. Fighting for your life; Chapter 3. Encountering suffering; Chapter 4. The Doctor-Centred Medical Care; Chapter 5. Generative cognitive, emotional and somatic strategies for self-care; Chapter 6. The doctor-centred medical care in practice; PART II: The doctor-patient relationship, exercising therapeutic skills without being a psychotherapist; Chapter 7. The complexity of doctor-patient relationship; Chapter 8. The Patient: Transference and regressive self-states; Chapter 9. The doctor: Countertransference and narcissistic Traps; Chapter 10. Tenets of human presence, empathy, and compassion ;Chapter 11. Just be there: Implementing human presence, empathy and compassion in clinical practice; PART III: With the body in mind - Incorporating body-mind skills in medical treatment;. Chapter 12. The body mind connection- From Maimonides to psychoneuroimmunoendocrinology ;Chapter 13. The language of the body: The psych speaks the soma; Chapter 14. Listening to the language of the body ;Chapter 15. Doctor patient communication: A dialogue between bodies and minds; Chapter 16. Practical Body-Mind Interventions in medical care