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Empowering Patients with Life Threatening Illness From Both Sides Of The Stethoscope:Understanding Chronic Illness/Cancer
As a former American Cancer Fellow, a Gyn Cancer surgeon, a person living with cancer and presently a counseling psychologist at a Cancer Center in San Diego, Paul believes that we are far more than our diagnosis and far more capable of participating in our health then the medical community has given us credit for. In this program, he speaks to the roles, stresses and helplessness that family members experience as caretakers, and how they can more effectively cope with a love one's illness. It's a talk about hope, understanding, life and spirituality intended to promote a dialog between Paul and the participating audience of patients, caregivers and individuals who serve in the healing arts.
This program will focus on:
- Empowering the patient
- Caring for the Caregiver
- "Living with illness/cancer" rather than "surviving with illness/cancer"
During a sabbatical from private practice and academic medicine, Dr. Brenner counseled patients with terminal illness. These individuals changed his life. Touched by the beauty of the human spirit that they revealed, Dr. Brenner never returned to medicine, as he had known it. During the subsequent years, he limited his practice to one patient a day who had a life threatening illness. He found that those facing death, often tapped into the essential meaning of life, restructured their lives and offered wisdom for the living. In this poignant presentation, Dr. Brenner tells the stories of some of these individuals and how they redefined, for him, health, illness and healing. This understanding also helped him manage his own cancer.
Who Heals The Healer?The journey through the Healing Art of Medicine, although rewarding, is often fraught with subtle hazards. Dr. Brenner, as both a physician and psychologist, has devoted much of his career to understanding the relationship between the life choices that individuals make and the onset of illness. Although the careers of physicians, nurses, hospital administrators and others who work in the delivery of healthcare services appear to be different, when analyzed, demonstrate quite similar traits. Specifically, these are qualities of caring, giving, nurturing and in general, being there for others. Although noble, the need to take care of others often comes with the risk of losing one's self. Such selfless, long term care giving has been reported as a progenitor of organic illness. Therefore, it behooves those in the healing arts to heal themselves and so become more effective as healers. In this insightful and revealing presentation, Dr. Brenner guides individuals in the health field through the stages of a healer and assists them in enhancing their lives and therefore, the lives of those they serve.
Speaker Information
Dr. Paul Brenner is a physician and counseling psychologist. He is the author of many books and has lectured throughout the United States, Europe and Asia on the psychology of health and illness and the unconscious patterns that run our lives. Also, corporations such as Wal- Mart, Microsoft, Disney, Disney International, Fleetwood International and Rhino Records have used Dr. Brenner's "Family Triangle Process" for team building and understanding the reason why individuals fall into given categories when tested by various psychological inventories.
Dr. Brenner began his career in academic and clinical medicine as an OB/GYN with a sub-specialty in Female Oncology. During a sabbatical, he serendipitously began to counsel patients with life threatening illnesses. As a result, his life dramatically changed. He left the practice of medicine as he had known it and saw one person a day with chronic or terminal illness.
These wise transparent individuals became his teachers. Dr. Brenner learned the relationship between emotions and health and illness. For him, health became the appreciation and acceptance of life, self and other. This led Dr. Brenner to search for those repetitive, unconscious patterns that set the stage for illness. This understanding also helped him manage his own cancer.
Fascinated by how emotions integrate the mind and body, he obtained a doctorate in counseling psychology. Dr. Brenner has also studied transcultural and integrative healing in South America, Taiwan and China.
Dr. Brenner is the author of Health is a Question of Balance, A Shared Creation, Seeing Your Life Through New Eyes, Buddha in the Waiting Room and Love Made Visible. He is a member of the Life Wellness Institute of San Diego and is a consultant for Praxis creative leadership systems that specializes in executive coaching, team building and organizational leadership development.
His career has also led him to be the Director of SafeReach Institute, past member of the Board of Directors of the American Holistic Medical Association, past Health Director of the Center for Healing Arts, past Director of Project Sharing-Hospice Out Reach Program, the Founding Board of American Holistic Medical Association, former Chairman of the Dept of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Scripps Memorial Hospital and former Professor and Director of Female Cancer Surgery, UCSD School of Medicine.
Dr. Brenner's honors include the Life Devotion Award received in Taiwan, The San Diego Enlightenment Award and The University of California San Diego School of Medicine Physicians Teaching Award. He has appeared on Public Television and moderated the award winning K.P.B.S series, Healing Through Communication.
Dr. Brenner received his B.A. from Brown University, his M.D. from New York Medical College and held an American Cancer Fellowship in Female Oncology. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from The International University of Professional Psychology. He is presently at the San Diego Cancer Center-Encinitas, CA and the Life Wellness Center in San Diego.
Testimonials
"Paul's presentation provided a creative and effective grounding in our discussions on the end of life journey."
- Casa de la Luz Hospice
"Exceptional program! I learned things about myself that I never realized. Paul's process is an invaluable tool to recognize personal obstacles to achieving success."
- Walmart
"Tremendous work! This material greatly adds to every health professional's personal journey-an eye opener, a must!"
- Cortext Mind Matters Educational Seminars
"An outstanding and profound presentation. Confirms many of my notions of what is most important for health practitioners to learn."
- Independent psychologist
"Invaluable! I never learned so much in such a short period of time. I learned more about myself a 3-hour program than I learned in 5 years of psychotherapy."
- YPO Attendees