The Wounded Healer

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The Wounded Healer

• Thomas B. Horvath, M.D., FRACP
• Chief of Staff, DeBakey VA Medical Center
• Professor, Menninger Dept. of Psychiatry
• Baylor College of Medicine
• LTC, MC, USAR, (Ret.)
• Board Member, Institute for Religion and Health,
• Texas Medical Center

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The care of the wounded healer

• To the memory of Ralph Collins, PA
• Rest in Peace 2007
• Dedicated to John of Capistrano
• Rest in Peace 1456

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Two soldiers, two memories of unpopular wars

• Shot and shelled on the Eastern front
  equanimity and pride war and stories
• Shelled, overran, unable to get supplied unable
  to rescue silence, followed by haunting
  nightmares 40 years later

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The tale of the radioman

• Peter Bourne and on-site stress studies in
  Vietnam
• Difference in stress levels officers, enlisted,
  radiomen
• The facts and illusions of control

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Empathy and the mirror neurons

• Jim Duffy and the Institute for Religion and
  Health
• Sympathy, empathy, compassion
• Meanings and neuroimages
• Mirror neurons and mentalization

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Healers through history

• The First People and community healing
• Shamans and their journeys medicine men
• Priestly castes and Ayurvedic medicine
• From Aesculapius to Hippocrates to Galen
• Prayer in the monastery garden
• The Great Divorce Descartes and Pare
• Oslers misunderstood Equanimitas

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The mystery of suffering

• Job and Isaiah
• Buddha and Jesus
• Aquinas and Assisi
• Parsifal of Wagner and Zarathustra of Nietzsche
• The Madonna of Stalingrad and Edith Stein of the
  Shoa
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Karol Woytyla

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Hope

• Basic developmental attitude
• Existential stance
• Theological virtue
• Faith seeking understanding
• Willpower and waypower
• Therapeutic cornerstone

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BPSS Triangular Solid Integral Medicine

• Bio-psychological clinical neuroscience psycho
  somatics
• Bio-social public health
• Bio-spiritual ACM
• Psychosocial social learning
• Psycho spiritual inner growth
• Socio-spiritual organized religion, faith
  communities
• The Mystical Body