From Detached Concern to Empathy: Humanizing Medical Practice Book

1	Failures of Emotional Communication in Medical Practice	1
2	Managing Emotions as a Professional Ideal	15
	Detachment to Avoid the Errors of Sympathy	15
	The Tradition of Sympathy	19
	The Ideal of Objectivity	21
	Avoiding Emotional Errors	26
	Emotions and Cognition	29
3	Emotional Reasoning	39
	Associational Linking	40
	"Gut Feelings"	44
	Emotional Inertia	49
	Moods and Temperament	53
	The Strategic Nature of Emotions	57
4	The Concept of Clinical Empathy	67
	Clinical Empathy as Detached Insight	68
	Aesthetics and the Origins of the Concept of Empathy	74
	Psychoanalytic Views of Empathy as Affective Merging	77
	A Model of Clinical Empathy as Emotional Reasoning	85
5	Respecting Patient Autonomy: From Non-Interference to Empathy	101
	Respecting Autonomy: Beyond Non-Interference	102
	Beyond Negative Autonomy: Kant on Deliberative Freedom	106
	Autonomy versus Detachment	109
	Suffering, Empathy, and the Interpersonal Basis of Autonomy	111
	Kantian Theory and Positive Obligations to Share Ends	118
	The Complex Relationship Between Empathy and Respecting Autonomy	123
6	Cultivating Empathy in Medical Practice	129
	From Certainty to Curiosity	129
	Emotional Irrationality Revisited: Finding the Therapeutic Opportunity	136
	Regaining Mental Freedom	138
	Non-Abandonment	141
	Bibliography	149
	Index	163