Description - Doctors and Paintings by John Middleton
Appreciating art can help doctors build empathy with patients and reduce stress. By stimulating thought and reflection through paintings this concise and engaging text invites readers to examine their motivation their profession and their world. This exciting new book provides vital refreshment for doctors and medical students lecturers and tutors in medical humanities and healthcare professionals with mentoring roles. 'John and Erica Middleton guide the reader gently along the interface between art and medicine in their own inimitable style. Whether in search of an introduction to the world of art or wishing to consider the role that the formal study of art might play in professional development reading this book is likely to prove rewarding. Turning these pages will help doctors to appreciate afresh the window through which they look upon the world.' Sir Liam Donaldson in his Foreword 'Great art provides insights into the human condition. If through a systematic engagement with art and literature as an extension of their medical practice GPs can apply those insights to themselves (know thyself) they can equally apply them when dealing with patients.
Doctors and patients are people subjects. Intersubjectivity is perhaps a better word than empathy to define what this book seeks to promote the capacity of the doctor to enter into and inhabit the patient's subjectivity.' Peter Wheeler in his Foreword
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