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Title The shared experience of illness : stories of patients, families, and their therapists / edited by Susan H. McDaniel, Jeri Hepworth, and William J. Doherty
Edition First edition
Published New York : BasicBooks, 1997

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Description xii, 378 pages ; 24 cm
Contents 1. The Shared Emotional Themes of Illness / Susan H. McDaniel, Jeri Hepworth and William J. Doherty -- 2. Whispers of Illness: Secrecy Versus Trust / Judith Landau -- 3. A Birth Gone Awry / Jo Ellen Patterson -- 4. Working Together to Get Control: Treating Encopresis / Alan D. Lorenz -- 5. The Child in the Therapist and the Old Man in the Child: Psychosomatic Symptoms and Children / David V. Keith -- 6. "So That They Don't Need Me Anymore": Weaving Migration, Illness, and Coping / Celia Jaes Falicov -- 7. The Girl Who Went on Strike: A Case of Childhood Diabetes / Felise B. Levine -- 8. Two Families, Two Stories: Courage and Chronic Illness / Kathy Cole-Kelly -- 9. A Double Life: Adolescent Trauma / Barry J. Jacobs -- 10. Controlled Bleeding: Counseling Hemophiliacs / David M. Rosenthal -- 11. Infertility: A Couple and a Therapist Consider the Meaning of Children / Mimi Meyers -- 12. Mothering Without a Mother: Pregnancy Loss / Barbara A. Gawinski -- 13. Facing Yourself in Your Work: A Young Man with Head and Neck Cancer / William N. Friedrich -- 14. Coming to Peace: Dialogues on Survival, Suffering, and Death / Melissa Elliott Griffith and James L. Griffith -- 15. A Journey with Hope, Fear, and Loss: Young Couples and Cancer / John S. Rolland -- 16. The Family Left Out and the Family Included: Two Outcomes for "Schizophrenia" / Lyman C. Wynne -- 17. The Two-Way Mirror in My Therapy Room: AIDS and Families / Jeri Hepworth -- 18. "Do You Need to Know?": Genetic Testing for Huntington's Disease / Susan K. Sobel -- 19. Multiple Illnesses, Repeating Nightmares / John Byng-Hall -- 20. Can Anyone Help Me? The Story of a Woman with Breast Cancer / Karen Weihs -- 21. The Denial of Death: A Case of Stomach Cancer / David B. Seaburn -- 22. The Feminization of a Medical Marriage: Collaborative Opportunities in Cardiac Rehabilitation / Wayne M. Sotile -- 23. Mothers Aren't Supposed to Get Sick: A Case of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder / Nancy Breen Ruddy -- 24. When It Never Stops Hurting: A Case of Chronic Pain / Sylvia Shellenberger and Gregory L. Phelps -- 25. On Not Taking Illness Too Seriously: Aging with Diabetes / Donald S. Williamson -- 26. Turning Powerlessness into Opportunity: A Case of Bipolar Affective Disorder / Michael R. Fox -- 27. Multiple Sclerosis, Beliefs, and Families: Professional and Personal Stories of Suffering and Strength / Lorraine M. Wright -- 28. Trapped Inside a Body Without a Voice: Two Cases of Somatic Fixation / Susan H. McDaniel -- 29. Coping with an Insoluble Problem: Renal Failure / Peter Steinglass -- 30. Unspeakable Pain: The Impact of Stroke on the Family / William B. Gunn, Jr. -- 31. Finding the Person in Dementia: Experiences in a Group for Persons with Alzheimer's Disease / Wayne Caron -- 32. A Lesson on Love: Caring for the Terminally Ill / Maria A. Batlle-Santiago -- 33. "He's Sick, but I'm the One Who Hurts": Our Work with a Medically Ill Older Couple / Stephen C. Basler and Deborah A. King -- 34. Learning from My Grandmothers: A Case of Polymyalgia Rheumatica / Nancy K. Newman -- 35. Rigidity in the Family: A Case of Parkinson's Disease / William J. Doherty
Summary This volume shows the powerful benefits that can emerge when therapists acknowledge illness as a vital part of everyone's 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 others - and how these experiences can be used to form a healing bond in therapy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Countertransference (Psychology)
Family psychotherapy.
Psychotherapist and patient.
Sick -- Family relationships.
Sick -- Psychology.
Author Doherty, William J. (William Joseph), 1945-
Hepworth, Jeri, 1952-
McDaniel, Susan H.
LC no. 97002010
ISBN 0465044301
0465097375