Improving Patient Treatment with Attachment Theory A Guide for Prima
This book emphasizes interpersonal relationships as a frequently overlooked, yet crucial element in today’s healthcare system and describes the utility of attachment theory in understanding and managing patients with medical and surgical illness. Sections
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Improving Patient Treatment with Attachment Theory
Jonathan Hunter • Robert Maunder Editors
Improving Patient Treatment with Attachment Theory A Guide for Primary Care Practitioners and Specialists
Editors Jonathan Hunter Department of Psychiatry University of Toronto Mount Sinai Hospital Toronto Ontario Canada
Robert Maunder Department of Psychiatry University of Toronto Mount Sinai Hospital Toronto Ontario Canada
ISBN 978-3-319-23299-7 ISBN 978-3-319-23300-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-23300-0
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Preface
In 2001, as consultation-liaison psychiatrists working ‘in the trenches,’ we were trying to understand why patients behave the way they do, and how we could help our colleagues in medicine, surgery, family practice, and all disciplines of health care with the struggles that ensued when their patients experienced their care to be unsatisfactory or threatening. We found attachment theory to be immensely useful in this challenge. A PUBMED search for new articles that year on ‘Attachment and Medicine’ would have turned up 23 articles. In 2013, the same PUBMED search generates 91 new articles in the preceding year. The field has built continuously over time, with increasing momentum, so that now it feels like we are at the cusp of general acceptance of the relevance of an attachment perspective. To capture the breadth of this activity, in Improving Patient Treatment with Attachment Theory, we have engaged leading researchers from North America, Europe, and Australia to apply this new perspective to the practical work of caring for patients. In our work we have been generously supported by colleagues at Mount Sinai Hospital, both i
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