Reflective Practice in Medicine and Multi-Professional Healthcare

This unique book presents in a single collection around 50 essays by Dr Launer on reflective practice in medicine, including examples specific to medical education and multiprofessional healthcare. Based on existing contributions to the literature by Dr Launer, the book brings them together in updated form for the first time as a themed collection with an introduction linking the different topics addressed. Coverage includes communication skills, supervision, teamwork and organisational health. In a time of unprecedented demand on healthcare services, educators and practitioners, Dr Launer offers invaluable guidance to a broad audience including community-based GPs, practice nurses and nurse practitioners, pharmacists, physician assistants and paramedics, secondary care staff including consultants and registrars across all specialties, communications skills educators, counsellors and mental health professionals, and health service managers and administrators.

Medical Books

Launer, John

Administration & Medicine Economics

CRC-Press

Who was Sabina Spielrein Her dramatic life story is most famous for her notorious affair with Carl Jung, dramatised in the film A Dangerous Method starring Keira Knightley. Yet she was a woman who overcame family and psychiatric abuse to become an original thinker in the field of psychotherapy. This is the first biography to put her life and ideas at the centre of the story, and to examine Spielreins key role in the development of psychoanalysis and in the rift between Jung and Freud. Drawing on fresh research into Spielreins diaries, papers and correspondence, John Launer tells the story of a passionate woman who transformed herself from one of Jungs disturbed patients into a leading figure in Western psychology, then the Soviet intelligentsia, before losing her life in the Holocaust. At the heart of Sex Versus Survival is the gripping tale of Spielrein and Jungs tumultuous affair, which played such an important role in both of their lives and intellectual journeys. Launer shows how Spielreins overlooked ideas rejected by Jung and Freud, but substantially vindicated by later developments in psychology and evolutionary biology may represent the last and most important stage in the rediscovery of an extraordinary life.

Sex versus Survival: The Life and Ideas of Sabina Spielrein

Psychology

Gerald Duckworth Co Ltd

Narrative-Based Practice in Health and Social Care: Conversations Inviting Change

Narrative-Based Practice in Health and Social Care outlines a vision of how witnessing narratives, paying attention to them, and developing an ability to question them creatively, can make the person’s emerging story the central focus of health and social care, and of healing.   This text gives an account of the practical application of ideas and skills from contemporary narrative studies to health and social care. Promoting narrative-based practice in everyday encounters with patients and clients, and in supervision, teaching, teamwork and management, it presents "Conversations Inviting Change," an established narrative-based model of interactional skills.   Underpinned by an account of theory from narrative studies and related fields, including communication theory and systems thinking, it is written for students and practitioners across a broad range of professions in primary and secondary health care and social care.  More information about "Conversations Inviting Change" is available at www.conversationsinvitingchange.com. This website includes podcasts, presentations and  further teaching material as well as details of forthcoming courses, and is continually updated with information about the approach described in this book.

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Routledge

Sex Versus Survival: The Life and Ideas of Sabina Spielrein

Who was Sabina Spielrein? She is probably best known for her notorious affair with Carl Jung, which was dramatized in the film A Dangerous Method, starring Keira Knightley. Yet her life story is much more compelling than just one famous relationship. Spielrein overcame family and psychological abuse to become a profoundly original thinker in her own right. Sex Versus Survival is the first biography to put her life and ideas at the center of the story and examine Spielrein’s key role in the development of psychoanalysis. Drawing on fresh research into Spielrein’s diaries, papers, and correspondence, John Launer shows how Spielrein’s overlooked ideas―rejected by Freud and Jung but substan-tially vindicated by later developments in psychol-ogy and evolutionary biology―may represent the last and most important stage in the rediscovery of an extraordinary life.

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Abrams Press

The first full and accessible biography of one of the most significant and overlooked figures in the field of sexual psychologyWho was Sabina Spielrein? She is probably best known for her notorious affair with Carl Jung, which was dramatized in the film A Dangerous Method, starring Keira Knightley. Yet her life story is much more compelling than just one famous relationship. Spielrein overcame family and psychological abuse to become a profoundly original thinker in her own right.Sex Versus Survival is the first biography to put her life and ideas at the center of the story and examine Spielrein’s key role in the development of psychoanalysis. Drawing on fresh research into Spielrein’s diaries, papers, and correspondence, John Launer shows how Spielrein’s overlooked ideas rejected by Freud and Jung but substantially vindicated by later developments in psychology and evolutionary biology may represent the least and most important stage in the rediscovery of an extraordinary life. 12 b&w photographs in 1 8-pg insert

Doctor and medical columnist John Launer has written on the practice and teaching of medicine for many years. Now, more than fifty of his essays have been collected in How Not to Be A Doctor. Taken together, they set out an argument that being a doctor―a real doctor―should mean being able to draw on every aspect of yourself, your interests, and your experiences, however remote these may seem from the medical task of the moment.Originating from popular columns Launer has written for medical journals, the essays range from the title essay “How Not to Be A Doctor,” an ironic piece illustrating how being authentic as a doctor may mean behaving in ways you were never taught in medical school, to a story of the imagined conversation between two prehistoric medical men on the primitive diet, to the author’s poignant account of being a patient himself as he received treatment for a life-threatening illness. Some of the essays take the form of short stories, either imaginary or autobiographical, and some are contemplative in tone, while others are polemical, humorous, educational, fantastical, satirical, or dead serious. They cover a range of topics including music, poetry, literature, and psychoanalysis, as well as contemporary medical politics and the personal experiences of being a doctor. From the absurd to the profound, the short stories, essays, and reflections in How Not to Be a Doctor combine erudition with humor, candor, and the human touch to show how, in medicine, you cannot separate personal experiences from professional ones, and to inform and entertain readers on both sides of the stethoscope.

How Not To Be A Doctor: And Other Essays

Professionals & Academics

'Sex versus Survival' is the first biography of Sabina Spielrein to put her life and ideas at the center of the story, and aimed at the general reader. Famous for her affair with Carl Jung and her part in the rift between Jung and Freud, Sabina Spielrein was also a highly original thinker in her own right. Drawing on her sexual encounters with Jung, she proposed a radical theory of human sexuality. It was rejected by Freud and his successors, but much of it has been vindicated by modern discoveries including the 'selfish gene' and evolutionary psychology. 'Sex versus Survival' offers a short and highly readable account of Spielrein's life and ideas. It draws on her diaries and papers, her correspondence with Jung and Freud, and a wide range of sources that have become available since John Kerr wrote 'A Dangerous Method' almost twenty years ago. 'Sex versus Survival' tells the story of Sabina Spielrein in an entirely new way, stakes a claim for her genius.

Sex Versus Survival. The Story Of Sabina Spielrein: Her Life, Her Ideas, Her Genius.

lulu.com

How Not to be a Doctor and Other Essays offers a collection of entertaining and often poignant essays published originally for the CODA column in QMJ. Author, John Launer writes in an amusing style presenting some of his personal experiences and observations of the medical world. Including essays such as 'The Wrong Trousers' and 'The Professor of Cheese' these essays will be a delight to read for the medical professional and the lay reader alike.

How Not to Be a Doctor And Other Essays

Hodder Education Publishers

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Reflective Practice in Medicine and Multi-Professional Healthcare

Reflective Practice in Medicine and Multi-Professional Healthcare

Sex versus Survival: The Life and Ideas of Sabina Spielrein

Narrative-Based Practice in Health and Social Care: Conversations Inviting Change

Narrative-Based Practice in Health and Social Care: Conversations Inviting Change

Sex Versus Survival: The Life and Ideas of Sabina Spielrein

Sex Versus Survival: The Life and Ideas of Sabina Spielrein

How Not To Be A Doctor: And Other Essays

Sex Versus Survival. The Story Of Sabina Spielrein: Her Life, Her Ideas, Her Genius.

How Not to Be a Doctor And Other Essays