{"product_id":"narrative-psychiatry-bradley-lewis-9780801899027","title":"Narrative Psychiatry: How Stories Can Shape Clinical Practice","description":"\u003cp\u003ePsychiatry has lagged behind many clinical specialties in recognizing the importance of narrative for understanding and effectively treating disease. With this book, Bradley Lewis makes the challenging and compelling case that psychiatrists need to promote the significance of narrative in their practice as well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNarrative already holds a prominent place in psychiatry. Patient stories are the foundation for diagnosis and the key to managing treatment and measuring its effectiveness. Even so, psychiatry has paid scant scholarly attention to the intrinsic value of patient stories. Fortunately, the study of narrative outside psychiatry has grown exponentially in recent years, and it is now possible for psychiatry to make considerable advances in its appreciation of clinical stories. \u003ci\u003eNarrative Psychiatry\u003c\/i\u003e picks up this intellectual opportunity and develops the tools of narrative for psychiatry. Lewis explores the rise of narrative medicine and looks closely at recent narrative approaches to psychotherapy. He uses philosophic and fictional writings, such as Anton Chekhov's play \u003ci\u003eIvanov\u003c\/i\u003e, to develop key terms in narrative theory (plot, metaphor, character, point of view) and to understand the interpretive dimensions of clinical work. Finally, Lewis brings this material back to psychiatric practice, showing how narrative insights can be applied in psychiatric treatments--including the use of psychiatric medications.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNothing short of a call to rework the psychiatric profession, \u003ci\u003eNarrative Psychiatry\u003c\/i\u003e advocates taking the inherently narrative-centered patient-psychiatrist relationship to its logical conclusion: making the story a central aspect of treatment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bradley Lewis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801899028\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801899027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2011 pg. 336","brand":"Bradley Lewis","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48448955580671,"sku":"9780801899027","price":55.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7617284e-7f6b-436b-93b9-906eab616bb1.jpg?v=1777261334","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/narrative-psychiatry-bradley-lewis-9780801899027","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}