The Mindful Medical Student: A Psychiatrist's Guide to Staying Who You Are While Becoming Who You Want to Be

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The Mindful Medical Student: A Psychiatrist's Guide to Staying Who You Are While Becoming Who You Want to Be Pub. Date: 6/30/2009 Publisher: Dartmouth College Press

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Four years in medical school are not only demanding and competitive in a strictly academic sense, but they may bring students face-to-face with perfectionism, anxiety, obsessions, power plays, difficult patients, ethical dilemmas, identity crises, sleep deprivation, financial strain, and--perhaps for the first time in their lives--confrontations with disease, suffering, and death. The Mindful Medical Student will broaden readers' perspectives and cultivate their ability to respond to the extreme emotional, psychological, and spiritual challenges posed by medical school and, eventually, a medical career. Jeremy Spiegel, MD, tackled these issues head on, prevailed, and became a first-rate psychiatrist. Now, in a vital book, he shares what he has learned.

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"The Mindful Medical Student should be required reading for everyone in medical school. More than that, it should be a required course!"
— Christiane Northrup, MD, author of Mother-Daughter Wisdom, The Wisdom of Menopause, and Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781584657637
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
Publication date: 6/30/2009
Pages: 160
Sales rank: 451,502
Product dimensions: 5.22 (w) x 9.04 (h) x 0.47 (d)

Meet the Author

DR. JEREMY SPIEGEL is a practicing psychiatrist in Portland, Maine. He has written for general, medical, and psychiatric publications. DR. BERNIE SIEGEL is a surgeon, well-known self-help author, patient advocate, and crusader for the humanization of medical education and care.

Foreword by Bernie Siegel, MD vii

Preface xi

Introduction I

Part I Discovering who you are 5

1 Finding Your True Self 8

2 Gaining Awareness of Your False Self 21

3 Tuning In to Acting Out 35

4 Grappling with Perfectionism and Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior 43

Part II Reinventing Yourself 53

5 Bonding with Classmates for Support 55

6 Consciously Creating Your Persona 61

7 Handling the Difficult Personas of Others 66

8 Combating Emotional Shutdown 78

9 Keeping Dry amid a Flood of Ethical Dilemmas 90

Part III Blazing a Path to Your Deeper Self 105

10 Dream Interpretation for First-Time Scalpel Wielders 107

11 Synchronicities, Archetypes, and the Self as Springboards to Spiritual Knowledge 120

12 Medical School as iMovie Splicing an Edited Version of Your Self-Story into Residency and Beyond 134

Bibliography 141

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