Bøger af Caroline Elton

A psychologist's stories of doctors who seek to help others but struggle to help themselves From ER and M*A*S*H to Grey's Anatomy and House, the medical drama endures for good reason: we're fascinated by the people we must trust when we are most vulnerable. In Also Human, vocational psychologist Caroline Elton introduces us to some of the distressed physicians who have come to her for help: doctors who face psychological challenges that threaten to destroy their careers and lives, including an obstetrician grappling with his own homosexuality, a high-achieving junior doctor who walks out of her first job within weeks of starting, and an oncology resident who faints when confronted with cancer patients. Entering a doctor's office can be terrifying, sometimes for the doctor most of all. By examining the inner lives of these professionals, Also Human offers readers insight into, and empathy for, the very real struggles of those who hold power over life and death.

Meet Lionel, Caroline's older brother. Lionel was born in the 1950s, when no-one knew what autism was, nor how to study or treat it. Terrifyingly, at the time, most autistic children were institutionalised and often died in their thirties or forties.Luckily, over the course of Lionel's life, an understanding of autism - and even its name - has become more embedded in our individual lives and in society. But this is not to say that autistic people have it easy. There is still a gap between the life experiences and expectancy that neurodivergent and neurotypical individuals have. As Caroline found, nowhere is this truer than in end-of-life care.Looking After is a portrait of Lionel - an extraordinary man who often looked a bit dishevelled, and whose life was certainly unusual but never dull. He had perfect pitch, could multiply three-figure numbers in his head, or work out which day of the week you were born on, the instant you told him your birthday. Through Caroline's account of Lionel's life, from his childhood to his musicality, his time at work to the challenges at the end, this is both the tale of the impact of one man on many people, and the story of how everyone's sense of autism has changed over the past seventy years, and how there is still more to do.