The Meaning of Personsby Paul Tournier | |
| Category: |
"Theology" |
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| Pages: | 234 |
| Year of Publication: | 1957 |
| Date Added: | 08/11/2006 |
| Notes: | Paul Tournier was a general practitioner in Geneva for nearly fifty years. Although he had never had a specialist training and disclaimed the title of psychiatrist, his own experiences, and his discovery that many patients needed help going deeper than drugs or surgery, led him to develop and practise what he called the "medicine of the person", in which medical knowledge, understanding and Christianity are combined. Instead of lying on a psychiatric couch, his patients were often sitting in his living-room by the fire and talking to the doctor, sometimes in the presence of the doctor's wife. Few psychiatrists have helped so many patients to solve their problems as Tournier did. |
| My Rating: | 8 |