Mental Health and Healing in Medicine: The Power of Writing

” By writing about traumatic experiences, we discover and rediscover them, move them out of the ephemeral flow and space of talk onto the more permanent surface of the page, where they can be considered, reconsidered, left, and taken up again.” — Charles Anderson and Marian MacCurdy, “Writing and Healing: Toward an Informed Practice”

I am sharing with you my first published piece of narrative medicine in English “Let Your Patient Dream“, on CLOSLER, the journal of Miller Coulson Academy of Clinical Excellence, At John-Hopkins Medical School.

Some readings and references that might inspire you to begin your writing journey:

• CLOSLER
• INTIMA, a Journal of Narrative Medicine
• Narrative Medicine: A Model for Empathy, Reflection, Profession, and Trust | Narrative Medicine | JAMA | JAMA Network
• What to do with stories (nih.gov)
• Implementing a Narrative Medicine Curriculum During the Internship Year: An Internal Medicine Residency Program Experience (nih.gov)
• Narrative Medicine, Honoring the Stories of Illness, Rita Charon. Oxford University Press, 2006
• The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine, Rita Charon, Sayantani DasGupta, Nellie Hermann, Craig Irvine, Eric R. Marcus, Edgard Rivera Colon, Danielle Spencer, Maura Speigel. Oxford University Press, 2017
• La médecine narrative, Une révolution pédagogique? Dr Gaëlle Abgrall-Barbry, Dr Anne Chahwakilian, Pr Elizabeth Astangul, Pr Serge Perrot. Sous la direction des Pr Francois Goupy et Pr Claire Le Jeunne. Préface de Rita Charon. MED-LINE Editions, 2017

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.__ Hippocrates.