Abstract

Learning medicine and psychiatry is a moral as well as an intellectual challenge. Successful training in psychiatry can lead to significant personality maturation. Using poetic examples, the paper explores aspects of emotional development relevant to the traditional values of dynamic psychiatry. Such values are contrasted with those of the prevailing bureaucracy.

Highlights

  • Learning medicine and psychiatry is a moral as well as an intellectual challenge

  • We just go on autopilot and tackle the task in hand"

  • We must be grateful for that autopilot, but once the technical job is done, the professional needs to reconnect with herself as a person. There is another kind of work to be done - to help with the impact of the trauma, the grief, the horror and here, paradoxically, professional skills are needed to help professionals divest themselves of their professionalism - to become themselves once more, no longer automata

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Summary

Jeremy Holmes

Learning medicine and psychiatry is a moral as well as an intellectual challenge. Successful training in psychiatry can lead to significant personality maturation. The paper explores aspects of emotional development relevant to the traditional values of dynamic psychiatry. Such values are contrasted with those of the prevailing bureaucracy. We must be grateful for that autopilot, but once the technical job is done, the professional needs to reconnect with herself as a person. It is a moral discipline in that in osturruggelnicnogunttoer dowainthd tshaey pthaetien'rtighwt' e thairneg ailnwatyhse face of human suffering This struggle is as much with our own inadequacies, negativity, anxiety and pessimism as with those of the patient, even if we sometimes comfort ourselves with the thought that, via projective identification, these.

Medicine as a moral challenge
Poetic examples

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