Psychoanalysis and Narrative Medicine

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Psychoanalysis and Narrative Medicine

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Peter L. Rudnytsky - Editor
Rita Charon - Editor

SUNY series in Psychoanalysis and Culture

Price: $89.50
Hardcover - 320 pages

Release Date: January 2008

ISBN10: N/A
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7351-1

Price: $33.95
Paperback - 320 pages

Release Date: January 2008

ISBN10: N/A
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7352-8

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Summary

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.

“This book is stunning.” — Metapsychology

“What is unique to this volume, as coeditor Peter Rudnytsky emphasizes in his excellent introduction, is the integration of psychoanalysis into the literature-medicine dyad.” — New England Journal of Medicine

“This brilliant volume takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the landscape of a new field—narrative medicine—using psychoanalysis as the lens through which to observe the terrain. The editors have gathered a hugely diverse group of authors who present the many different ways that doctors and patients and society communicate and fail to communicate about illness and disease. Psychoanalysis, philosophy, literature, sociology, history, as well as psychology, neuroscience, and medical experience and practice are all brought into the service of understanding this important new area of medical care.” — Arnold M. Cooper, MD, Professor Emeritus in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College

“These essays offer diverse but always fascinating perspectives on the interplay of mind, body, and culture in the complementary mysteries of disease and of the relationship between healer and sufferer.” — Arthur W. Frank, author of The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics

Contributors include Jeffrey Berman, Vera J. Camden, Rita Charon, Ed Cohen, Sander L. Gilman, Fred L. Griffin, Geoffrey Hartman, Schuyler W. Henderson, Richard Lewis Holt, Terrence Holt, Jean S. Mason, Kimberly R. Myers, Peter L. Rudnytsky, Janet Sayers, Neil Scheurich, Lisa J. Schnell, and Bennett Simon.

Peter L. Rudnytsky is Professor of English at the University of Florida and editor of the journal American Imago. Rita Charon is Professor of Clinical Medicine and Director of the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University and coeditor of the journal Literature and Medicine.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Peter L. Rudnytsky

Part I Contextualizing Narrative Medicine

1. Where Does Narrative Medicine Come From? Drives, Diseases, Attention and the Body
Rita Charon

2. Desire and Obesity: Dickens, Endocrinology, Pulmonary Medicine, and Psychoanalysis
Sander L. Gilman

3. Pinel and the Pendulum
Richard Lewis Holt

4. Narrative Medicine and Negative Capability
Terrence Holt

Part II Psychoanalytic Interventions

5. “The Past Is a Foreign Country”: Some Uses of Literature in the Psychoanalytic Dialogue
Vera J. Camden

6. It’s Really More Complicated Than You Imagine: Narratives of Real and Imagined Trauma
Bennett Simon

7. Narrative and Feminine Empathy: James to Kristeva
Janet Sayers

8. The Fortunate Physician: Learning from Our Patients
Fred L. Griffin

Part III The Patient’s Voice

9. Learning How to Tell
Lisa J. Schnell

10. Imagining Immunity
Ed Cohen

11. A Perspective on the Role of Stories as a Mechanism of Meta-Healing
Kimberly R. Myers

12. The Discourse of Disease: Patient Writing at the “University of Tuberculosis”
Jean S. Mason

Part IV Acts of Reading

13. The Teaching Cure
Jeffrey Berman

14. Reading, Listening, and Other Beleaguered Practices in General Psychiatry
Neil Scheurich

15. Uncertain Truths: Resistance and Defiance in Narrative
Schuyler W. Henderson

16. Narrative and Beyond
Geoffrey Hartman

Afterword

Material and Metaphor: Narrative Treatment for the Embodied Self
Rita Charon

Notes on Contributors
Index

Related Subjects

History of Science
Humanistic Psychology
Literary Theory
Mental Health
Psychoanalysis

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