Humanization of the care relationship: neuroscientific aspects and applications in medical education.

The work falls within the pedagogical field of medical humanities, essential dimensions of an authentic medicine. Health education is crucial in the approach to life: ethically it is based on respect for the dignity of the human person as a capacity, fragility, openness to reciprocity and gift. Personalist anthropology defines man as a multidimensional bio-psycho-socio-spiritual uniqueness, favoring a holistic notion of health as harmony and integration of personal energies, a dynamic process that involves, for a subject inserted in a cultural and social context, the succession of progressive balances throughout life. Health promotion starts from a unitary, socio-cultural and gender vision of the data related to the person, awareness of the need for clear and human communication with family members, collaboration between health care professionals, analysis of clinical, relational, ethical and social aspects in the treatment of disease. Prevention, diagnosis and therapy must include the analysis of behavior and its alterations within the subjective experiences, integrating symptoms and structural and functional signs in a global and unitary evaluation. The work focuses specifically on the neurobiological correlates of the care relationship and stress related to it, proposing humanizing pathways able to contain the effects.