Psychoanalysis and Narrative Medicine (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780791473511)

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.

Author: Peter L. Rudnytsky
ISBN-10: 0791473511
ISBN-13: 9780791473511
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Language: English
Published: 01/17/2008
Pages: 308
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 9.07h x 6.31w x 0.99d