Keri Brenner

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398 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2020 last heard Feb 2023

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GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast · Therapeutic Presence in the Time of COVID: Podcast with Keri Brenner and Dani Chammas · 14 Apr 2020 podcast

We pay attention to the nuances of what's said.

We also are attuned to what's unsaid.

We are deep listeners.

We allow for silence.

We know that slowing things down a bit actually allows us to get there more quickly.

And this process of being deeply attentive allows us to identify patients' strengths, to bolster their coping skills, and to problem solve with them in a much more personalized way.

I think that our background with, I mean, Danny and I have many things in common.

We're both psychiatrists and in the space of palliative care.

And one part of our training as psychiatrists is that it allows us to have an awareness of

And to actually bring words to what's happening in the room and in these dynamics with patients and their families.

And there's a lot of power in being able to identify that.

Because when I'm in the world of palliative care, I see all these therapeutically present things that people are doing.

And so the ability to identify those dimensions of it can be helpful.

Yeah, that ability to name the core experience.

And by naming, I don't mean this kind of superficial naming, like, oh, that must be hard.

I'm talking about real naming, where we actually are able to put to words what otherwise is sort of that angst or nameless dread.

that patients and families might be experiencing.

Because we know that that ability to name something, to put it to words, to bring it to expression, actually allows it to be less awful.

Where suddenly patients and families are able to feel more accompanied and supported by us, where it's a shared burden.

By naming, we courageously go right into it and don't leave people alone with their fears.

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