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