Communication & conversations

Philosophical aspects of the medical conversation

Philosophical aspects of the medical conversation By Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Thomas Bohrer Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Thomas Bohrer reflects on the medical conversation as the constitutive feature of the doctor-

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Idiolectics and methodical immoralism

Idiolectics and methodical immoralism By Dr. Hans Hermann Ehrat Dr. Hans Hermann Ehrat introduces “methodical immoralism” through Eugen Drewermann’s image of psychotherapy and pastoral care as a form

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Hypnosis in palliative medicine

Hypnosis in palliative medicine By Klaus Ulbrich Klaus Ulbrich presents an experiential report on hypnosis in palliative care. He makes clear that hypnosis is not a miracle cure, especially not in adv

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Comprehensive palliative care in inpatient children’s and youth hospice work

Comprehensive palliative care in inpatient children’s and youth hospice work Esther Pfeiffer describes the work of the children’s and youth hospice Balthasar in Olpe, where children and young people w

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Rituals in accompanying the seriously ill and dying

Rituals in accompanying the seriously ill and dying Dr. Martin Weiß describes dying and grief as experiences of uncertainty, insecurity and fragility that can push patients, relatives and bereaved peo

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Giving problems a different weight

Giving problems a different weight Spring is late on this Schwabing afternoon. Grey hangs over our heads, dull cigarette smoke is scattered across the asphalt as proof that the invitation of the café

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Spiritual care and communication

Spiritual care and communication A chaplain speaks with a young man who will die in the near future. The topics change: Why all this? What will become of my children? Why does my wife not want to talk

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Passion for “Lebensfarben”

Passion for “Lebensfarben” A palliative chaplain, a church band and an extraordinary spiritual-care project Ten musicians, months of preparation and a deep commitment to the hospice idea resulted in a

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Impulses for the soul

Impulses for the soul Columba spiritual care Texts from the “Lebensfarben” project by Markus Starklauf The first prose text invites readers to look at their own life balance and to live attentively in

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The special case: spiritual care

The special case: spiritual care By Markus Starklauf Patient: female, born 1972 Diagnosis: metastatic colon cancer After a short stay on the palliative ward she is cared for at home by her parents and

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Gespräche in Palliativstationen

By Dr. med. Hans Hermann Ehrat - physician for general medicine FMH / psychotherapy IG. The method of “idiolectic conversation”. The extraordinary situation of patients on palliative care wards requir

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