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Narrative Psychiatry
Bradley Lewis
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Description for Narrative Psychiatry
Hardcover. Nothing short of a call to rework the psychiatric profession, Narrative Psychiatry advocates taking the inherently narrative-centered patient-psychiatrist relationship to its logical conclusion: making the story a central aspect of treatment. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: MMH; MMJT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
Psychiatry 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. Narrative 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 ... Read more
Psychiatry 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. Narrative 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801899027
SKU
V9780801899027
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About Bradley Lewis
Bradley Lewis, M.D., Ph.D., is an associate professor of medical humanities and cultural studies at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study, with affiliated appointments in the Department of Psychiatry and the Center for Bioethics. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Medical Humanities and the author of Moving beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New ... Read more
Reviews for Narrative Psychiatry
"Lewis has captured and articulated a method of working with patients that is at once intuitive to seasoned practitioners, while also directing them to novel areas of thinking about and working with patients." (John Z. Sadler, M.D., author of Values and Psychiatric Diagnosis)"