The Patient's Brain: The Neuroscience Behind the Doctor-patient Relationship
- ISBN-10
- 0199579512
- ISBN-13
- 9780199579518
- Category
- Medical
- Pages
- 284
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Author
- Fabrizio Benedetti
Description
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 have now found ourselves in a much better position to be able to describe and discuss the biological mechanisms that underlie the doctor-patient relationship. The concept of this revolutionary new book is that, froma neuroscientific perspective, the doctor-patient relationship can be subdivided into at least four steps: feeling sick, seeking relief, meeting the therapist, and receiving the therapy. The mainadvantage 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, boosting the professional's empathic and compassionate behaviour further. 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 thepatient's behaviour 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, andneuroscientists.
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- 2010-10-07
- 304 pages
- Ebook
- OUP Oxford
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