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The Wounded Healer

The Wounded Healer. Thomas B. Horvath, M.D., FRACP Chief of Staff, DeBakey VA Medical Center Professor, Menninger Dept. of Psychiatry Baylor College of Medicine LTC, MC, USAR, (Ret.) Board Member, Institute for Religion and Health, Texas Medical Center. The care of the wounded healer.

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The Wounded Healer

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  1. The Wounded Healer Thomas B. Horvath, M.D., FRACP Chief of Staff, DeBakey VA Medical Center Professor, Menninger Dept. of Psychiatry Baylor College of Medicine LTC, MC, USAR, (Ret.) Board Member, Institute for Religion and Health, Texas Medical Center

  2. The care of the wounded healer • To the memory of Ralph Collins, PA Rest in Peace 2007 • Dedicated to John of Capistrano Rest in Peace 1456

  3. Two soldiers, two memories of unpopular wars • Shot and shelled on the Eastern front: equanimity and pride; war and stories • Shelled, overran, unable to get supplied unable to rescue: silence, followed by haunting nightmares 40 years later

  4. The tale of the radioman • Peter Bourne and on-site stress studies in Vietnam • Difference in stress levels: officers, enlisted, radiomen • The facts and illusions of control

  5. Empathy and the mirror neurons • Jim Duffy and the Institute for Religion and Health • Sympathy, empathy, compassion • Meanings and neuroimages • Mirror neurons and mentalization

  6. Healers through history • The First People and community healing • Shamans and their journeys: medicine men • Priestly castes and Ayurvedic medicine • From Aesculapius to Hippocrates to Galen • Prayer in the monastery garden • The Great Divorce: Descartes and Pare • Osler’s misunderstood Equanimitas

  7. The mystery of suffering • Job and Isaiah • Buddha and Jesus • Aquinas and Assisi • Parsifal of Wagner and Zarathustra of Nietzsche • The Madonna of Stalingrad and Edith Stein of the Shoa • Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Karol Woytyla

  8. Hope • Basic developmental attitude • Existential stance • Theological virtue • Faith seeking understanding • Willpower and waypower • Therapeutic cornerstone

  9. BPSS: Triangular Solid: Integral Medicine • Bio-psychological: clinical neuroscience; psycho somatics • Bio-social: public health • Bio-spiritual: ACM • Psychosocial: social learning • Psycho spiritual: inner growth • Socio-spiritual: organized religion, faith communities • The Mystical Body

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