Psychoanalysis and Narrative Medicine

Name: Psychoanalysis and Narrative Medicine
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ISBN: 9780791473528

ISBN-10: 079147352X

ISBN-13: 9780791473528

Edition: 2008

Authors: Peter L. Rudnytsky, Rita Charon

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Book details

List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 1/17/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction




Contextualizing Narrative Medicine



Where Does Narrative Medicine Come From? Drives, Diseases, Attention, and the Body




Desire and Obesity: Dickens, Endocrinology, Pulmonary Medicine, and Psychoanalysis




Pinel and the Pendulum




Narrative Medicine and Negative Capability




Psychoanalytic Interventions



"The Past Is a Foreign Country": Some Uses of Literature in the Psychoanalytic Dialogue




It's Really More Complicated than You Imagine: Narratives of Real and Imagined Trauma




Narrative and Feminine Empathy: James to Kristeva




The Fortunate Physician: Learning from Our Patients




The Patient's Voice



Learning How to Tell




Imagining Immunity




A Perspective on the Role of Stories as a Mechanism of Meta-Healing




The Discourse of Disease: Patient Writing at the "University of Tuberculosis"




Acts of Reading



The Teaching Cure




Reading, Listening, and Other Beleaguered Practices in General Psychiatry




Uncertain Truths: Resistance and Defiance in Narrative




Narrative and Beyond



Afterword: Material and Metaphor: Narrative Treatment for the Embodied Self



Notes on Contributors


Index