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MinahSoFirstEssay 3 - 08 Apr 2018 - Main.EbenMoglen
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< | It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind you how section and subsection titles are formatted. | | | Compassion Fatigue in Humanitarian Work | | | To a certain extent, emotional intelligence can be improved through training. Other professional, such as caregivers, are specifically trained to take on heavy emotional burdens, and yet the legal profession places aseptic logic over emotional capacity despite the proposition that mismanaged feelings can steer the latter into dark places. Increased focus on this unspoken part of legal careers will allow everyone to cope with the natural losses and hardships that occur in these highly sensitive practice areas. We want to encourage people to hope for the change that is inherently difficult rather than run for smoother waters. | |
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I wonder at the absence of psychotherapy as an idea in an essay that
is about the need for psychotherapy.
I think it is particularly important that you see that the phenomena
with the name "compassion fatigue" result from holding in your
own mind and body trauma that has been transferred from people you
are trying to help. Whatever name is given to the situation, the
transfer of trauma is the crucial place from which to begin thinking
about living with it as an occupational condition.
Dissociation, which is about going down another street in the mind,
is, as you say, a primary adaptive capacity. Its second-order
consequences, both internal and external, are what the therapist is
in that sense "curing," not the mechanism by which our mind and
brain kept us alive. If you were going to amend this draft, which
probably doesn't need amendation, I think that would be the
direction in which to try to push the thinking a little further.
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You are entitled to restrict access to your paper if you want to. But we all derive immense benefit from reading one another's work, and I hope you won't feel the need unless the subject matter is personal and its disclosure would be harmful or undesirable. |
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| Revision 3 | r3 - 08 Apr 2018 - 18:47:19 - EbenMoglen |
| Revision 2 | r2 - 02 Mar 2018 - 03:35:58 - MinahSo |
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