This original, eloquent, compassionate, and timely book offers all healthcare practitioners interested and involved in addiction practice a powerful account of an addiction psychiatrist’s journey of professional and personal growth, thereby offering readers a unique opportunity to learn deeply from the author’s insights, experiences, and struggles in becoming a patient-centered empathic healer. Through sharing and exploring clinical experiences in addiction practice, this fascinating title delves into the lead author and his mentee’s personal, professional, and ethical challenges and weaves together science and humanism, offering a wealth of experiential wisdom and tools that have the power to transform our understanding of therapeutic work with people with addictions. Written with empathy and humility, Humanizing Addiction: Blending Science and Personal Transformation provides a compelling argument and framework for integrating humanism with empirically grounded practices. This important book is an invaluable resource for healers from a range of backgrounds: physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, social workers, case managers, patient navigators, clinical and health psychologists, pharmacists, counselors, graduate students, and medical trainees involved in clinical care of people with addiction and substance use problems.
Daftar Isi
Building a Mindset for Healing.- Cultivating Empathy and Emotional Openness in Practice.- Learning and Growing from Unpredictable Encounters.- Scientific Foundations for Addiction Practice.- Working with Family and Significant Others.- Spirituality, Religion, and Mutual Support Programs.- Trainees’ Reflections on Clinical and Personal Growth.- Epilogue.
Tentang Penulis
Antoine Douaihy, MD
Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Department of Psychiatry
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
H. Patrick Driscoll, MD, MSc
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Department of Psychiatry
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Dr. Douaihy and Driscoll offer an engaging story of their
own professional development, describing patient encounters that helped to shape
their humane approach to the practice of science-based addiction medicine.
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