1st Edition
Spiritual Care Manual of Psycho-Oncology and Gestalt Therapy
Chapter 1: From 'to cure' to 'to care', to spiritual care
Chapter 2: The clinical model Gestalt Therapy Relationship-Contact Centred Medicine
Chapter 3: Health psychology: beiond the limits of the Kubler-Ross stages
Chapter 4: Taking care of pain from myth to science
Chapter 5: Gestalt therapy for a new humanism
Final reflections
Biography
Paola Argentino is a medical doctor and specializes in psychiatry, Gestalt psychotherapy, preventive medicine, and family and community mediation. She is a professor in the faculty of Medicine and Surgery, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Italy, and founder and co-director of master’s programs in psycho-oncology, psycho-neuro-endocrino-immunology, neurosciences, and other courses in counseling ranging from prenatal care to end-of-life. She is also president of Nino Trapani Institute of Neurosciences and Gestalt, established in memory of her husband. Dr Argentino is passionate about the psychosocial study of Greek myths and has organized conferences on these topics and summer schools on the spirituality of caring.
