Health

Love’s tremendous power

Establishing relationships of trust and love in psychotherapy

Without negating the important advances of positive psychology, Chiara Lubich’s perspective has taken us a step further these past 10 years. The Psychology and Communion network continues to explore exciting implications for the field.

Reflections on the meaning of self and the encounter with others

Excerpts from two personal accounts

In medicine, where suffering, disease and death challenge the very meaning of life, relationships acquire a higher level of importance. Today, more than ever, doctors need to re-learn the art of building rapport.

A conversation with Dr. Flavia Caretta, a specialist in geriatrics and gerontology at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital and board member of the Medicine-Dialogue-Communion association.

Humble and highly regarded, Dr. Jenny Cam takes her spirituality into civil society, collaborating with her city’s mayor to further diabetes awareness and treatment.

A couple’s experience with their Down syndrome baby

This past March 15, 2006 about 175 healthcare practitioners gathered together in New York City to contemplate “The Meaning of Suffering and the Value of Life,” the title given to the all-day conference.