Emotional Intelligence in context of Therapeutic-Relationdhip

Abstract

From the technical point of view, the medical act is limited to establishing a diagnosis for the purpose of recommending a treatment. Are things so simple? From a hermeneutic-philosophical point of view, any medical act involves a meeting between two individuals, with the establishment of a special type of interhuman relationship, conditioned by the specific context of this encounter. For this reason, emotional load can reach extreme levels by the existence of factors that include: an nearness that goes beyond the comfort zone of the individual, touching body area, approaching intimate subjects, to receive news (good or bad). But what is the rol of emotional intelligence, in therapeutic communications? This study approach the subject in modern medical conception who places more emphasis on the involvement of emotional factors in medical communications. The article brings attention, through a study on 200 patients, the importance of the emotional approach of the patient in the light of previously exposed. The patient - centered medicine has emerged as a need to change the paradigm of the medical act, in which the patient's approach is individualized and holistic, in a bio-psychosocial context. The present substudy is a part of a large study carried out between 2008-2016; is a prospective, mixt study who fulfills the conditions for human studies. Applying this medical model leads to the emergence of new concepts in medicine, that go beyond the classical model, namely: redefinition of the therapeutic relationship and its model of functioning.