Week 6 -- Weiyue Lin
The medical world is often on the polar opposite of the spiritual world, but in the contemporary world, practitioners have developed a gray area of operation that entails ether complementary or alternative medicine. The author focuses on the chaplaincy process that explores mindfulness meditation that nurtures one’s self-awareness skills that translate into deep-listening abilities that reinforce integrated and empathetic care for patients. Ramakrishnan supports the incorporation of Chaplain’s transpersonal framework of mindfulness training that entails nonjudgmental presence and concurs with Gilligan’s hypnotherapeutic and the Freudian psychotherapeutic approaches that traditionally help philosophers make sense of religion. Chaplain’s model of spiritual care perceives patient symptoms as intersubjective experiences that stem from paradigmatic disturbances, thus establishing rapport with the patient results in alleviation of their symptoms.
Physicians who understand Chaplain’s process of spiritual care are more likely to conceive the neurobiological approaches underpinning interpersonal empathy and mindfulness in a way that facilitates the development of an evidence-based model that considers the patient’s spiritual well-being. The author affirms the need to incorporate specific dimensions of Clinical Pastoral Education into Psychiatry and Medical education training to equip practitioners with spiritual skills and phenomenological factors that enhance integrated care. The spirit realm is becoming a priority area in medicine due to the positive feedback system that originates from multifaith and religious education in training institutions that understand the essence of spiritual care. Also, Ramakrishnan identifies the need to remain cautious when using such models because it would be unlawful to withdraw terminally ill patients from life support to introduce them to cultural or religious directives. By highlighting empathy and the underlying neurobiological process, practitioners can provide holistic care for their patients through a multidimensional model that draws from humanities and medicine.
Physicians who understand Chaplain’s process of spiritual care are more likely to conceive the neurobiological approaches underpinning interpersonal empathy and mindfulness in a way that facilitates the development of an evidence-based model that considers the patient’s spiritual well-being. The author affirms the need to incorporate specific dimensions of Clinical Pastoral Education into Psychiatry and Medical education training to equip practitioners with spiritual skills and phenomenological factors that enhance integrated care. The spirit realm is becoming a priority area in medicine due to the positive feedback system that originates from multifaith and religious education in training institutions that understand the essence of spiritual care. Also, Ramakrishnan identifies the need to remain cautious when using such models because it would be unlawful to withdraw terminally ill patients from life support to introduce them to cultural or religious directives. By highlighting empathy and the underlying neurobiological process, practitioners can provide holistic care for their patients through a multidimensional model that draws from humanities and medicine.
Work Cited
Ramakrishnan, Parameshwaran. "‘You Are Here’." Current Opinion in Psychiatry 28.5 (2015): 393-401. Web.
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