This is a thoughtful, nuanced, clearly articulated and challenging book that engages directly with the perceived crisis of psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalysis and Narrative Medicine
β Scribed by Peter L. Rudnytsky, Rita Charon
- Publisher
- State University of New York Press
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 322
- Series
- S U N Y Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Contributors explore the significance of literature and psychoanalysis for medical education and practice.
β¦ Table of Contents
Psychoanalysis and Narrative Medicine......Page 4
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
PART I. Contextualizing Narrative Medicine......Page 34
1. Where Does Narrative Medicine Come From? Drives, Diseases, Attention, and the Body......Page 36
2. Desire and Obesity Dickens, Endocrinology, Pulmonary Medicine, and Psychoanalysis......Page 50
3. Pinel and the Pendulum......Page 74
4. Narrative Medicine and Negative Capability......Page 96
PART II. Psychoanalytic Interventions......Page 110
5. βThe Past Is a Foreign Countryβ: Some Uses of Literature in the Psychoanalytic Dialogue......Page 112
6. Itβs Really More Complicated than You Imagine: Narratives of Real and Imagined Trauma......Page 132
7. Narrative and Feminine Empathy: James to Kristeva......Page 150
8. The Fortunate Physician: Learning from Our Patients......Page 162
PART III. The Patientβs Voice......Page 180
9. Learning How to Tell......Page 182
10. Imagining Immunity......Page 196
11. A Perspective on the Role of Stories as a Mechanism of Meta-Healing......Page 212
12. The Discourse of Disease: Patient Writing at the βUniversity of Tuberculosisβ......Page 222
PART IV. Acts of Reading......Page 240
13. The Teaching Cure......Page 242
14. Reading, Listening, and Other Beleaguered Practices in General Psychiatry......Page 260
15. Uncertain Truths: Resistance and Defiance in Narrative......Page 274
16. Narrative and Beyond......Page 290
AFTERWORD: Material and Metaphor: Narrative Treatment for the Embodied Self......Page 300
Notes on Contributors......Page 308
B......Page 314
D......Page 315
G......Page 316
L......Page 317
P......Page 318
S......Page 319
W......Page 320
Y......Page 321
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