Beyond Medicine
Healing Power in the Doctor-Patient Relationship
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13677267 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lucille Hollander Blum (Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 399-427 |
| Publication date | 1985-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychological Reports (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2466/pr0.1985.57.2.399 |
| PMID | 4059452 |
| OpenAlex | W2417729856 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 19 |
Healing power in the doctor-patient relationship is addressed to physicians in physical health care and to medical students but is of equal importance to dentists, social workers, nurses, and teachers in the field of physical health care. The presentation points up that in the relationship between physician and patient certain phenomena occur that are comparable to responses in the relationship between the psychoanalyst and analysand, such as transference and countertransference. This indicates that the physician in physical health care in effect is involved in some kind of psychotherapy. Aspects of the art of medicine are described. Emphasis is on the potential for patients' physical health improvement—placebo effect—when the providers' perception extends beyond focus on physical symptoms and disorders and includes attention to the patients' psychological and emotional needs
Countertransference · Health care · Mental health · Perception · Physical health · Power (physics · Presentation (obstetrics · Psychotherapist · Empathy and Medical Education · Medicine · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2021 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |