To be healers we will have to understand the dynamic of healing I
relationships, what makes them work. what makes them fall,
why some helping professionals learn to become healers and
why others never rise above the level of technical competence.
This book is a report on what we have learned in our effort to
study healers and healing skills in a more systematic way.
Both of us have spent our lives in health care. Churchill has
been educating medical students, hospital house staff, nurses,
and chaplains in academic medical centers since 1973.
Schenck has worked in a wide range of nonprofit healthcare
review organizations: as an administrator, as a community organizer
for health services, and as a chaplain in hospital and hospice
settings. Both of us have seen firsthand how the relational
dimension of professional help is sometimes the difference
between good and bad outcomes. Even when outcomes are
unfavorable, finding meaning in the problems is powerfully
affected by the ability to elicit trust and to empathize with others,
as well as by commitments like shared responsibility, loyalty.
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is an effort to put on display what we have Iearned from
interviews with 50 clinicians recognized by their peers as
healers. lessons that we believe speak not only to doctors but to
the broad spectrum of professionals who work in health care.
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affected by the ability to elicit trust and to empathize with others,
- as well as by commitments like shared responsibility, loyalty.
Search m this book Go and deep respect for the humanity of another person. This book
is an effort to put on display what we have Ieamed from
interviews with 50 clinicians recognized by their peers as
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We have both been deeply humbled by what we have
Ieamed, and by the responsiveness of the people we
interviewed. We Ieamed much about healing, but we also
Ieamed what a rare and valuable thing it is to be able to discuss
healing, to be able to reflect on powers that both seem beyond
us and yet reside in us as human beings. A short version of our
research findings was reported in 2008 in Annals of lntemal
Medicine. Many of the numerous responses we received from
physician readers were remarkable and gratifying, but none
more so than that of an Italian physician who wrote that reading
the article was a healing experience for him, confirming the part
of his work he found most meaningful.
We hope clinical educators reading this book will pay more
attention to the phenomenon of healing, and will be motivated to
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the general public will feel that some of the things they most
prize in professional helpers are beginning to be recognized and
valued, and will demand greater competence in these skills from
those who make claims to help them.
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We begin in Chapter 1 with a report of interviews with 50
clinicians over a 2-year period. clinicians identified by their I
peers as expert healers. Their responses to the questions we
posed were sometimes obvious and remarkably simple, at other
times surprising and complex. They consistently engaged the
subject of healing by offering practical advice—describing things
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audiotapes of these interviews comprise over 600 pages oi
transcripts. Our analysis of this material clustered around eight
themes. each described as a practical skill. We have sought to
remain true to the form of the responses. and have couched
hese skills as imperatives—things to do with patients and
clients. rather than ways to think about them. Mastering these
skills would provide enduring improvements for patients, just as
practicing these skills consistently would provide the most
enduring rewards of patient rare for clinicians.
Many of the practitioners we interviewed recognized that
patient care inevitably involves ritual processes. Chapter 2
steps back from a locus on healing skills as separate capacities
to consider how they function together as elements in a larger
ritual structure. In Chapter 3 we turn our interpretive lens to a
finer focus. this time explicatlng and interpreting one particularly
fruitful interview in detail.
Caring for the sick has always been of extraordinary
importance to human beings and. coupled as it now is with the
power of modem science. parallels and interconnections
between healing in health care and healing in religious and
. spiritual traditions are natural and inevitable. These parallels
and interconnections are the subject of Chapter 4.
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patient narratives about illness and clinician—patient
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'/ physiology, neurology, immunology. and placebo studies. In this
chapter we argue for a rethinking of the placebo effect as an
element in a larger phenomenon we term the ‘healing
response.” Here we also make suggestions for a model of
medical education that would integrate training in healing skills
__ more completely into health professions curricula.
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need wholeness in themselves to evoke the healing potential
inherent in others. One of our interview questions sought to
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wholeness in the midst of very demanding practices. This is the
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