![]() ![]() Tickbox medicine is not a good thing for either patients or doctors. Dias emphasises that these are not neat categories people can be pigeon-holed in to easily it would be more accurate to say these are all aspects of human. ![]() As doctors, if we give compassionate care, we are better able to cope. The ten types are the Perceiver of Pain, the Ostraciser, the Tamer of Terror, the Beholder, the Aggressor, the Tribalist, the Nurturer, the Romancer, the Rescuer and the Kinsman. However, if we return this with compassionate kindness, this eases our own pain. ![]() My take home from this is that we perceive and empathise with the suffering of others, but feel the pain ourselves. The inspiration behind the hit podcast THE 100 TYPES OF HUMAN with DEXTER DIAS and BBC 5 Live host NIHAL ARTHANAYAKE This book is the one. Available in used condition with free US shipping on orders. He asks, ‘Why do we try to save the drowning child and how do we choose between a group of children and one of our own? Do we perceive children in other countries differently? Do we have a protective mechanism against too much pain we can’t control?’ He senses that we all perceive the pain of others but, as the numbers become greater, our system is unable to cope, so switches off, hence ‘burnout’. Buy The Ten Types of Human: A New Understanding of Who We Are, and Who We Can Be By Dexter Dias. The thread that runs through this is the story of Anthony, a child sold to the slave trade in Africa, although he also looks at various areas of research into brain function and our ability to detect emotion. He believes it must have evolved in the same way the human body evolved and adapted, and in this first part he deals with what he calls the perceiver of pain. Dias has looked at the ‘ten types of human’ in his quest to understand the human mind. ![]()
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