
The Heart of Being Helpful
Empathy and the Creation of a Healing Presence
Peter R. Breggin(Author)
Springer Publishing Company
Published on 28. April 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-0-8261-0274-4 (ISBN)
Description
Based on more than 30 years of clinical experience as a psychiatrist and a therapist, Dr. Breggin's book, now available in an affordable paperback, illustrates the importance of developing a therapeutic bond--or healing presence--between helping professionals and their clients. The author provides useful vignettes, case studies, and personal insights to help both beginning and experienced therapists develop more empathy in therapeutic relationships. He asserts that the first step toward effective treatment is empathic self-transformation in the therapist. It is empathy and self-transformation that lie at the heart of being helpful. Topics include vulnerability, nurturing, helplessness, forgiveness, and spirituality, as well as tips for working with clients in extreme emotional crises, children and families, and patients of culturally diverse backgrounds.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
295 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8261-0274-4 (9780826102744)
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Person
Peter R. Breggin, MD, is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and former full-time consultant at NIMH. He is in private practice in Ithaca, New York, and the author of dozens of scientific articles and more than twenty books.
Content
Acknowledgements
Creation of Healing Presence
Being in Someone Else's Presence
Acceptance of Our Own Personal Inadequacy
Nurturing of Human Nature
Does Empathy Hurt Too Much?
Does Empathy Make Us Too Vulnerable?
Beyond the Quick and Easy Cure
From Fear and Helplessness to Love
How to Help in Extreme Emotional Crises
Creation of Healing Aura in Families
Helping People Who Seem Very Different from Us
Empathy and the Reform Spirit
Finding Ourselves Through Principled Living
Empathy and Forgiveness for Grievous Misdeeds
Empathy for Children and Childhood
Importance of Empathy for Ourselves
Grateful Healer
Is Love Enough?
Index
Creation of Healing Presence
Being in Someone Else's Presence
Acceptance of Our Own Personal Inadequacy
Nurturing of Human Nature
Does Empathy Hurt Too Much?
Does Empathy Make Us Too Vulnerable?
Beyond the Quick and Easy Cure
From Fear and Helplessness to Love
How to Help in Extreme Emotional Crises
Creation of Healing Aura in Families
Helping People Who Seem Very Different from Us
Empathy and the Reform Spirit
Finding Ourselves Through Principled Living
Empathy and Forgiveness for Grievous Misdeeds
Empathy for Children and Childhood
Importance of Empathy for Ourselves
Grateful Healer
Is Love Enough?
Index