Psychoanalysis and Narrative Medicine
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Psychoanalysis and Narrative Medicine

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Psychoanalysis and Narrative Medicine

About this book

Contributors explore the significance of literature and psychoanalysis for medical education and practice.

In this pioneering volume, Peter L. Rudnytsky and Rita Charon bring together distinguished contributors from medicine, psychoanalysis, and literature to explore the multiple intersections between their respective fields and the emerging discipline of narrative medicine, which seeks to introduce the values and methods of literary study into clinical education and practice. Organized into four sections-contextualizing narrative medicine, psychoanalytic interventions, the patient's voice, and acts of reading-the essays take the reader into the emergency room, the consulting room, and the classroom. They range from the panoramas of intellectual history to the close-ups of literary and clinical analysis, and they speak with the voice of the patient as well as the physician or professor, reminding us that these are often the same.

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Table of contents

  1. Psychoanalysis and Narrative Medicine
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. PART I. Contextualizing Narrative Medicine
  6. PART II. Psychoanalytic Interventions
  7. PART III. The Patient’s Voice
  8. PART IV. Acts of Reading
  9. AFTERWORD: Material and Metaphor: Narrative Treatment for the Embodied Self
  10. Notes on Contributors
  11. Index