This book provides doctors with insights into psychological and relational dynamics to better understand themselves and their patients, deepen their understanding of somatic and psychic dimensions of illness, and give them diagnostic and therapeutic tools to design better treatment procedures for patients.

INTRODUCTION; PART I: The doctor as a human being, incorporating a doctor-centred approach; Chapter 1. The price of caring; Chapter 2. Fighting for your life; Chapter 3. Encountering suffering; Chapter 4. The Doctor-Centred Medical Care; Chapter 5. Generative cognitive, emotional and somatic strategies for self-care; Chapter 6. The doctor-centred medical care in practice; PART II: The doctor-patient relationship, exercising therapeutic skills without being a psychotherapist; Chapter 7. The complexity of doctor-patient relationship; Chapter 8. The Patient: Transference and regressive self-states; Chapter 9. The doctor: Countertransference and narcissistic Traps; Chapter 10. Tenets of human presence, empathy, and compassion ;Chapter 11. Just be there: Implementing human presence, empathy and compassion in clinical practice; PART III: With the body in mind - Incorporating body-mind skills in medical treatment;. Chapter 12. The body mind connection- From Maimonides to psychoneuroimmunoendocrinology ;Chapter 13. The language of the body: The psych speaks the soma; Chapter 14. Listening to the language of the body ;Chapter 15. Doctor patient communication: A dialogue between bodies and minds; Chapter 16. Practical Body-Mind Interventions in medical care