Rita Charon, MD, PhD particularly resistant to simply being undergone and understood on
their own. We need to tell, perform, write, paint, sculpt, compose these complex experiences …

The discourse of the medical model of mental illness tends to dominate people's
conceptions of the origins and treatments of psychopathology. This reductionistic discourse …

This collection of essays examines the interrelations between illness, disability, health,
society, and culture. The contributors examine how" narratives" have emerged and been …

John to be" erased," and somehow felt closer to him during the time she was working on it.
her life," the worst of a cascade of losses that have clustered in the last year. Although John …

This paper aims to expand upon recent research addressing the relationship between
power and cultural stories of illness. It does this by exploring the stories …

In September 2001, in Manhattan, I taught writing workshops at Gilda's Club, a support
center for people living with cancer, founded in honor of Gilda Radner. The workshop was …

To use narrative medicine as a means for action towards social justice in medical education,
we need a renewal of our pedagogical methods that grapples not just with the worlds …

This paper explores the politics of resilience and recovery narratives by bringing critical
ethnography and auto-ethnographic methods to bear on my own experiences with …

In this chapter, the authors propose to bring together the 2 conceptions, emotions and
psychopathology, under the narrative umbrella. After introducing the narrative as the root …

This article extends an invitation to therapists and counseling practitioners to explore the
qualities of the literary technique and genre of Magical Realism as a conceptual and …