Chimes of time : wounded health professionals, essays on recovery

295 Pages·2013·2.924 MB·English

by  Kirkcaldy, Bruce D.

edited by
Bruce D.
Kirkcaldy
Chimes
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This book represents an ambitious project that unites various fields in
a multidisciplinary venture drawing on a diverse range of academics
and clinicians from medicine, psychology and the educational sciences.
The volume presents a plethora of essays and reviews by clinicians and
academics, including highly personal contributions, some emotive and some C
self-confessional. Other contributors disclose details of their own personal
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pain and suffering in relation to critical life events, including illnesses, but
also share their own resources and strengths, drawing on reflections and i edited by
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personal development: coping despite adversity and eventually finding Chimes
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meaning towards recovery both physically and psychologically. The authors
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are all very reflective, providing valuable advice for young practitioners and

“afflicted” alike. The revelations of these distinguished contributors highlight
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the powerful role of psycho-history and biography in understanding which
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persons have influenced our lives, and what events have shaped us, and how
may these have influenced our personal and working lives.
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Few scientific books address the wide spectrum of challenges required to
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resolve such developmental issues. This psychological battleground allows
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us to share and capitalise on the wealth and diversity of personal encounters
with what often appears to be insurmountable obstacles, but which are Wounded Health Professionals
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wounds healed through patience and continued practice. This collection
Essays on Recovery
of essays is an attempt to bridge theoretical and research concepts and
findings with clinical practice, adopting an interdisciplinary and cross-
cultural perspective. Accordingly, this book will be relevant and useful for
practitioners and researchers, but also for laymen and social policy makers.
The intended readership thus represents a very broad and diverse audience
to include those interested in health psychology, sociology, anthropology,
public health and mental health sciences.
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Chimes
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Sidestone Press

Chimes
Time
of
Wounded Health Professionals
Essays on Recovery
edited by
Bruce D. Kirkcaldy
© 2013 The Individual Authors
Published by Sidestone Press, Leiden
www.sidestone.com
Sidestone registration number: SSP123720001
ISBN 978-90-8890-094-5
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Cover design & Layout: K. Wentink, Sidestone Press
Contents
Acknowledgements 9
1 Introduction: When, why and how healers can profit from 11
their own vulnerability?
Bruce Kirkcaldy
2 The wounded healer in literature 29
Arnold Weinstein
3 Before and after psychosis: Is there anything positive to be 45
gained from the experience?
Peter K. Chadwick
4 Steps towards better collaboration between stakeholders to 57
promote mental health and to alleviate disablement due to
mental illness
Robert Miller
5 A contemporary shamanistic initiatory crisis 85
David Lukoff
6 Schizophrenia – Prodromal signs and symptoms – A personal 97
perspective
Frederick J. Frese
7 Creativity: A healthy side of madness 115
Gordon Claridge & Neus Barrantes-Vidal
8 ‘Intoxicating happiness’ – the blazing trail of mania 133
Bruce Kirkcaldy
9 Cancer: An illness, nothing more, nothing less 155
Nisha Dogra
10 Recreating self: A personal journey 165
Thandi Haruperi
11 On the meaning of self-knowledge, creativity and personal 187
resources in a case of coping with cancer
Aleksandra Tokarz
12 Scars of the wounded healer 203
Emile Allen
13 Identification and separation – Career choice following 215
parental death in adolescence
Amanda K. Ekdawi
14 Workaholism 229
Adrian Furnham
15 Lost in shadows? 245
Michael W. Eysenck
16 Empathy, woundedness, burn out, and how to love being a 261
therapist
Peter R. Breggin
Contributors 273
Index 281