Rethinking Illness: A Psychiatrist's Life-Threatening Experience and His Profound Journey Into the Many Dimensions of Healthcare and Healing

By Antoine Douaihy

This unique book is about the near-death experience of a medical illness, told as a story about activating aloneness, disconnection, pain, healing, resiliency, love, recovery and a growing dialogue between beliefs, values, health, and science. The author, a leading addiction medicine physician, describes how he learned the meaning of being a patient through the experience of physical and mental diminishment and vulnerability and uncertainty. This journey is also about reexamining the author's approach to working with patients living with addiction and how it has profoundly affected his professional and personal life. The book is intended to be an inspiration for both healthcare practitioners and lay people, influencing how they choose to think of the world, themselves, their patients and families (for practitioners), and discover their internal hidden resources. A compelling contribution to the clinical literature, Rethinking Illness: A Psychiatrist's Life-Threatening Experience and His Profound Journey into the Many Dimensions of Healthcare and Healing is a profound call for a more holistic and deep appreciation and understanding of the interplay of personal, scientific, spiritual dimensions of health and healing, with the ultimate outcome of change and growth.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 303207875X
• ISBN13: 9783032078759
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 75 Pages