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The Patient's Brain - The neuroscience behind the doctor-patient relationship (Paperback)
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The Patient's Brain - The neuroscience behind the doctor-patient relationship (Paperback)
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There is a vast literature on what has often been called the
doctor-patient relationship, patient-provider interaction,
therapist-patient encounter, and such like. However, it is thanks
to recent advances within neuroscience, that we now find ourselves
in a much better position to be able to describe and discuss the
biological mechanisms that underlie the doctor-patient
relationship. For example, we now know that different physiological
and biochemical mechanisms take part in complex functions, like
trust, hope, empathy and compassion, which are all key elements in
the therapist-patient encounter. With this neuroscientific
knowledge in their hands, health professionals will soon be able to
directly see how their words, attitudes, and behaviors activate and
inactivate molecules, cortical areas, and sensory systems in the
brains of their patients.
This revolutionary new book describes and explains how this new
scientific knowledge can be put to great practical use. It shows
how, from a neuroscientific perspective, the doctor-patient
relationship can be subdivided into at least four steps: feeling
sick, seeking relief, meeting the therapist, and receiving therapy.
The main advantage to approaching the doctor-patient relationship
from a neuroscientific perspective is that physicians,
psychologists and health professionals can better understand what
kind of changes they can induce in their patients' brains, further
boosting the professional's empathic and compassionate behavior.
Written by the author of the critically acclaimed 'Placebo
Effects', this book will lead to a better awareness of the
potential power that the doctor's behaviour may have on the
patient's behavior and capacity for recovery from illness, as well
as to better medical practice and social/communication skills. It
will be required reading for physicians, psychotherapists, and
neuroscientists.
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