Showing posts with label narrative medicine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label narrative medicine. Show all posts
Sunday, October 19, 2014
Stories As A Complement To Evidence-Based Medicine
Why Doctors Need Stories by Peter D. Karmer. The New York Times. October 18 2014.
Monday, February 4, 2013
The Narrative Of PTSD
Warrior Voices: Veterans Learn To Write The Words They Could Not Speak by Cecilia Capuzi Simon.
Those veterans with PTSD are discovering that, while some traditional therapies do not always work, writing sometimes offers help. This insight is built upon the psychological knowledge that writing is therapeutic. Writing forces the veteran to structure the traumatic experience and thereby obtain some control over it.
Those veterans with PTSD are discovering that, while some traditional therapies do not always work, writing sometimes offers help. This insight is built upon the psychological knowledge that writing is therapeutic. Writing forces the veteran to structure the traumatic experience and thereby obtain some control over it.
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Sacks Illustrates Medicine As Art, Narrative, As Well As Science In New Book on Hallucinations
'Hallucinations,' by Oliver Sacks. A Book Review by Siri Hustvedt. Sunday Book Review. The New York Times. December 28, 2012.
Sacks method here is the narrative case study of a variety of hallucinations seeking always to preserves the part without losing the synthetic whole. He seeks, as much as possible, to unite the physiological and the psychological to paint a picture of complex human reality. The last sentence in the review is nice summary of the approach the reviewer sees in this book: "Learned, quietly passionate and always curious, Sacks is a physician who has long understood that medicine is an art as well as a science.
Sacks method here is the narrative case study of a variety of hallucinations seeking always to preserves the part without losing the synthetic whole. He seeks, as much as possible, to unite the physiological and the psychological to paint a picture of complex human reality. The last sentence in the review is nice summary of the approach the reviewer sees in this book: "Learned, quietly passionate and always curious, Sacks is a physician who has long understood that medicine is an art as well as a science.
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