Website: www.careofthesoul.net
Thomas Moore’s latest book, Care of the Soul in Medicine, represents his vision for improving health care. It spells out how health-care workers can care for their patients as whole persons—body, soul, and spirit. While sharing stories from his personal and professional life, he gives advice to both health-care providers and patients for maintaining dignity and humanity, providing spiritual guidance for dealing with feelings of mortality and threat, encouraging patients to not only take an active part in healing but also to view illness as a positive passage to new awareness.
Thomas has spent thirty years as a psychotherapist and knows firsthand the deep issues involved in suffering and healing. For this book in particular, he has participated in dozens of medical conferences, visited hospitals and medical schools in several countries, and dedicated two years, two days a month, to interviewing every kind of worker, from the CEO to the housekeeping staff of St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut. Among the medical centers where he has lectured are McGill University Medical School, the University of Tennessee Medical School, the University of Minnesota program in Spirituality and Healing, the Mayo Clinic, NYU Cancer Center, Sloan-Kettering, Hermann Memorial in Houston, the Irish Hospice Foundation, and several smaller non-teaching hospitals and hospices.
The book is written to both caregivers and patients, offering ideas for enriching their sense of calling and responsiveness and specific solutions to common problems in health care.
