Doctors and their feelings : a pharmacology of medical caring / Benjamin Maoz, Stanley Rabinowitz, Michael Herz, and Hava Elkan Katz ; foreword by Robert E. Rakel ; introduction by Max R. Polliack.

Westport, Connecticut : Praeger, [1992]

xvii, 150 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Foreword / Robert E. Rakel -- Introduction / Max R. Polliack -- 1. Need for This Book -- 2. Birth of the Interdisciplinary Team -- 3. Medical Context and a Review of the Relevant Literature -- 4. Setting of Family Medicine -- 5. Professional Listening: Cultivating the Willingness to Listen -- 6. Anxiety and the Family Doctor -- 7. Feelings of Helplessness in the Doctor-Patient Encounter -- 8. Rejection -- 9. On the Aggression of Doctors -- 10. Being Offended in Medical Practice -- 11. Pleasure of Being a Family Doctor -- 12. Intimacy and Demarcation Lines: Negotiation of Distance -- 13. Setting Boundaries in the Doctor-Patient Relationship -- 14. Complexity of the Loyalty Issue in Family Medicine -- 15. Patienthood and Physicianhood -- 16. Contextual Thinking -- 17. Supervision of Communication Growth in Family Medicine Training -- 18. Balint Groups -- 19. Emotive Process Stimulation (EPS): A Sensitizing Approach for Eliciting Doctors' Emotions -- 20. Psychotherapeutic Interventions.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-145) and index.