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Compassion and Healing in Medicine and Society: On the Nature and Use of Attachment Solutions to Separation Challenges
Gregory L. Fricchione
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Hardback. There is a wisdom or perennial philosophy based on compassionate love that, Fricchione stresses, the medical community must take advantage of in designing future health care-and society must appreciate as it faces its separation challenges. Num Pages: 552 pages, 20, 6 black & white halftones, 14 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JMAF; MBDP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 166 x 41. Weight in Grams: 922.
Reconciling the scientific principles of medicine with the love essential for meaningful care is not an easy task, but it is one that Gregory L. Fricchione performs masterfully in Compassion and Healing in Medicine and Society. At the core of this book is a thought-provoking analysis of the relationship between evolutionary science and neuroscience. Fricchione theorizes that the cries for attachment made by seriously ill patients reflect an underlying evolutionary tenet called the separation challenge-attachment solution process. The pleadings of patients, he explains, are verbal expressions of the history of evolution itself. By exploring the roots of a patient's ... Read more
Reconciling the scientific principles of medicine with the love essential for meaningful care is not an easy task, but it is one that Gregory L. Fricchione performs masterfully in Compassion and Healing in Medicine and Society. At the core of this book is a thought-provoking analysis of the relationship between evolutionary science and neuroscience. Fricchione theorizes that the cries for attachment made by seriously ill patients reflect an underlying evolutionary tenet called the separation challenge-attachment solution process. The pleadings of patients, he explains, are verbal expressions of the history of evolution itself. By exploring the roots of a patient's ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
552
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
552
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421402208
SKU
V9781421402208
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About Gregory L. Fricchione
Gregory L. Fricchione, M.D., is a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and associate chief of psychiatry and director of the Benson-Henry Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is coauthor of The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of General Hospital Psychiatry and The Heart-Mind Connection.
Reviews for Compassion and Healing in Medicine and Society: On the Nature and Use of Attachment Solutions to Separation Challenges
"The finest statement yet on the evolution of compassionate care and why it is so essential to the well-being of patients." (Stephen G. Post, Stony Brook University)"