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This book provides doctors with insights into psychological and relational dynamics to better understand themselves and their patients, deepen their understanding of somatic and psychic dimensions of illness, and give them diagnostic and therapeutic tools to design better treatment procedures for patients. In the first part of the book, the authors explore cognitive, emotional, and somatic strategies that are supportive of doctors’ well-being. In the second part, they introduce theoretical knowledge and applicable skills from psychotherapy that can illuminate the complexity of the doctor-patient relationship, broaden doctors' approaches, and upgrade their communicative skills. The third part introduces some of the basic tenets of somatic psychotherapy that can deepen doctors' understanding of symptoms and illness, providing them with richer therapeutic tools and a deeper knowledge of bodily and psychological aspects, interweaving in a variety of medical conditions. This text not only provides a helping hand to both doctors and psychotherapists in designing an amalgamated approach to clinical treatment but also provides doctors with better tools for understanding and managing the intricacies of the doctor-patient relationship.

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The purpose of this book is to introduce doctors with an integrative approach based on theory and clinical experience emanating from two fields: western medicine and body psychotherapy. It introduces psychotherapy into medical practice in a very practical way and provides tools and principles for understanding and managing the doctor-patient encounter. This is an impressive, innovative and inspiring book and I highly recommend it to physicians in order to feel better as humans and doctors and be better doctors for their patients. Hava Tabenkin, MD, professor emerita, family medicine, School of Medicine Ben Gurion University, Israel. This is a narrative-based medical guide book, which interlaces encounter stories with medical and psychotherapy knowledge. Physical, psychological, social, and spiritual health chapters are interwoven in a complex artistic, yet practical, design to form new white coats. These suits suit us, evolving human healers. Iris Shoshani Helvitz, MD, Family Medicine and Palliative Care, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel Groundbreaking book that will change the way you think of sickness and health and of the doctor-patient relationship. Written fluently, theoretical and practical, giving doctors tools for better understanding of their patients as well as themselves, deepening and expanding theoretical and clinical knowledge of the body-mind relationship in a feasible way. This book will improve not only medical care but also make doctors feel better. Zohar Shani Gershon, MD, Family Medicine, Bar Ilan University, Israel

"""The purpose of this book is to introduce doctors with an integrative approach based on theory and clinical experience emanating from two fields: western medicine and body psychotherapy. It introduces psychotherapy into medical practice in a very practical way and provides tools and principles for understanding and managing the doctor-patient encounter. This is an impressive, innovative and inspiring book and I highly recommend it to physicians in order to feel better as humans and doctors, and be better doctors for their patients."" - Hava Tabenkin, MD, Professor Emerita, Family Medicine, School of Medicine Ben Gurion University, Israel ""This is a narrative-based medical guide book, which interlaces encounter stories with medical and psychotherapy knowledge. Physical, psychological, social, and spiritual health chapters are interwoven in a complex artistic, yet practical, design to form new white coats. These suits suit us, evolving human healers."" - Iris Shoshani Helvitz, MD, Family Medicine and Palliative Care, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel ""A groundbreaking book that will change the way you think of sickness and health, and of the doctor-patient relationship. Written fluently, theoretical and practical, giving doctors tools for better understanding of their patients as well as themselves, deepening and expanding theoretical and clinical knowledge of the body-mind relationship in a feasible way. This book will improve not only medical care but also make doctors feel better."" - Zohar Shani Gershon, MD, Family Medicine, Bar Ilan University, Israel"

The purpose of this book is to introduce doctors with an integrative approach based on theory and clinical experience emanating from two fields: western medicine and body psychotherapy. It introduces psychotherapy into medical practice in a very practical way and provides tools and principles for understanding and managing the doctor-patient encounter. This is an impressive, innovative and inspiring book and I highly recommend it to physicians in order to feel better as humans and doctors, and be better doctors for their patients. - Hava Tabenkin, MD, Professor Emerita, Family Medicine, School of Medicine Ben Gurion University, Israel This is a narrative-based medical guide book, which interlaces encounter stories with medical and psychotherapy knowledge. Physical, psychological, social, and spiritual health chapters are interwoven in a complex artistic, yet practical, design to form new white coats. These suits suit us, evolving human healers. - Iris Shoshani Helvitz, MD, Family Medicine and Palliative Care, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel A groundbreaking book that will change the way you think of sickness and health, and of the doctor-patient relationship. Written fluently, theoretical and practical, giving doctors tools for better understanding of their patients as well as themselves, deepening and expanding theoretical and clinical knowledge of the body-mind relationship in a feasible way. This book will improve not only medical care but also make doctors feel better. - Zohar Shani Gershon, MD, Family Medicine, Bar Ilan University, Israel

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Shamit Kadosh, MD is a family physician and practicing psychotherapist. She is currently a lecturer at Bar Ilan University (Medicine) and the Shiluv Institute (Psychotherapy). She headed a training program for the residents in family medicine in the Department of Family Medicine in North Israel. Asaf Rolef Ben-Shahar, PhD is a psychotherapist, author, and trainer. He founded a number of psychotherapy programs in Israel and the UK. He is the author of four books and numerous papers about psychotherapy. Asaf was editor-in-chief of The International Body Psychotherapy Journal.

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