Love, compassion and attachment in psychiatric care: perspectives for research and clinical practice
Rodolfo Furlan Damiano, Gregory Fricchione, Euripedes Constantino Miguel
Love, compassion and related constructs have drawn to much attention from the general public due to the increased need of a better and more humanistic medical care. However, those constructs have been constantly neglected in academic benches and high impact research journals due to the ‘abstract’ and ‘non-measurable’ nature of these constructs. At the same time, medicine is claiming for a more patient-oriented and empathetic care, as care has been more disease-oriented and less life- and health-oriented, as initially proposed. This piece tries to discuss and claim for a more compassionate and altruistic care, despite technical pressure from most healthcare systems. We aim, thus, to incentive more research and clinical practice toward this very important subject.
Submitted date:
08/23/2022
Accepted date:
10/17/2022