About the Book
This groundbreaking volume shows the powerful benefits that can emerge when therapists acknowledge illness as a vital part of everyones psychology. Susan H. McDaniel, Jeri Hepworth, and William J. Doherty invited therapists who work with individuals and families experiencing chronic illness and disability to describe clinical cases that illustrate their approach to medical family therapy. Contributors then were asked to share a personal story about their experiences with illness, and to explain how those experiences affect the way they work with their clients. }In the narrative of every human life and family, illness is a prominent character. Even if we have avoided serious illness ourselves, we cannot escape its reach into our circle of family and friends. Illness brings us closer to one another through caregiving and separates us through disability and death, yet little attention has been paid to personal and family illness in psychotherapy. Rather, therapists tend to focus on the psychosocial realm, leaving the biological realm to other physicians and nurses.This groundbreaking volume shows the powerful benefits that can emerge when therapists acknowledge illness as a vital part of everyones psychology.
Susan H. McDaniel, Jeri Hepworth, and William J. Doherty invited therapists who work with individuals and families experiencing chronic illness and disability to describe clinical cases that illustrate their approach to medical family therapy. Contributors then were asked to share a personal story about their experiences with illness, and to explain how those experiences affect the way they work with their clients.Vivid case studies dealing with a range of illnesses, including cancer infertility, schizophrenia, AIDS, heart disease, diabetes, asthma, and multiple sclerosis, show how the therapists own experiences of illness are relevant to their care of othersand how these experiences can be used to form a healing bond in therapy. As we head toward a new century, therapists play a central role in the delivery of comprehensive healthcare. We now know that psychology and social factors have a direct effect on the development and exacerbation of illness and disease, and that involvement of the family with the healthcare team is vital.
Poignant, honest, and illuminating, The Shared Experience of Illness allows us to understand more fully the relationship between the personal and the professional. This invaluable work provides inspiration and insight for anyone working at the cuttifng edge of our healthcare system. }
Table of Contents:
The Shared Emotional Themes of Illness (Susan H. McDaniel, Jeri Hepworth, and William J. Doherty); Illness In Children And Adolescents; Whispers of Illness: Secrecy Versus Trust (Judith Landau); A Birth Gone Awry (Jo Ellen Patterson); Working Together to Get Control: Treating Encopresis (Alan D. Lorenz); The Child in the Therapist and the Old Man in the Child: Psychosomatic Symptoms and Children (David V. Keith); So That They Dont Need Me Anymore: Weaving Migration, Illness, and Coping (Celia Jaes Falicov); The Girl Who Went on Strike: A Case of Childhood Diabetes (Felise B. Levine); Two Families, Two Stories: Courage and Chronic Illness (Kathy Cole-Kelly); A Double Life: Adolescent Trauma (Barry J. Jacobs); Illness In Young Adulthood; Controlled Bleeding: Counseling Hemophiliacs (David M. Rosenthal); Infertility: A Couple and a Therapist Consider the Meaning of Children (Mimi Meyers); Mothering Without a Mother: Pregnancy Loss (Barbara A. Gawinski); Facing Yourself in Your Work: A Young Man with Head and Neck Cancer (William N. Friedrich); Coming to Peace: Dialogues on Survival, Suffering, and Death (Melissa Elliott Griffith and James L. Griffith); A Journey with Hope, Fear, and Loss: Young Couples and Cancer (John S. Rolland); The Family Left Out and the Family Included: Two Outcomes for Schizophrenia (Lyman C. Wynne); The Two-Way Mirror in My Therapy Room: AIDS and Families (Jeri Hepworth); Do You Need to Know? Genetic Testing for Huntingtons Disease (Susan K. Sobel); Multiple Illnesses, Repeating Nightmares (John Byng-Hall); Illness In Middle Adulthood; Can Anyone Help Me? The Story of a Woman with Breast Cancer (Karen Weihs); The Denial of Death: A Case of Stomach Cancer (David B. Seaburn); The Feminization of a Medical Marriage: Collaborative Opportunities in Cardiac Rehabilitation (Wayne M. Sotile); Mothers Arent Supposed to Get Sick: A Case of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder (Nancy Breen Ruddy); When It Never Stops Hurting: A Case of Chronic Pain (Sylvia Shellenberger and Gregory L. Phelps); On Not Taking Illness Too Seriously: Aging with Diabetes (Donald S. Williamson); Turning Powerlessness into Opportunity: A Case of Bipolar Affective Disorder (Mic
About the Author :
Susan H. McDaniel, Ph.D., is professor and director of the Division of Family Programs in Psychiatry and co-director of Psychosocial Programs in Family Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. She lives in Rochester, New York. Jeri Hepworth, Ph.D., is professor, associate residency director, and director of Behavioral Sciences in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center. She lives in Willington, Connecticut. William J. Doherty, Ph.D., is professor of Family Social Science and director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Program at the University of Minnesota. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. Susan H. McDaniel, Ph.D., is professor and director of the Division of Family Programs in Psychiatry and co-director of Psychosocial Programs in Family Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. She lives in Rochester, New York. Jeri Hepworth, Ph.D., is professor, associate residency director, and director of Behavioral Sciences in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center. She lives in Willington, Connecticut. William J. Doherty, Ph.D., is professor of Family Social Science and director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Program at the University of Minnesota. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. Susan H. McDaniel, Ph.D., is professor and director of the Division of Family Programs in Psychiatry and co-director of Psychosocial Programs in Family Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. She lives in Rochester, New York. Jeri Hepworth, Ph.D., is professor, associate residency director, and director of Behavioral Sciences in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center. She lives in Willington, Connecticut. William J. Doherty, Ph.D., is professor of Family Social Science and director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Program at the University of Minnesota. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.
