Description
Book SynopsisNothing 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.
Trade Review"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)"
Table of ContentsPreface
1. Listening to Chekhov
2. Narrative Medicine
3. Narrative Approaches to Psychotherapy
4. Narrative Approaches to Psychotherapy
5. Mrs. Dutta and the Literary Case
6. Mainstream Stories I: Biopsychiatry, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Psychoanalysis
7. Mainstream Stories II: Interpersonal Therapy, Family Therapy, and Humanistic Therapy
8. Alternative Stories: Spirtual Therapy, Expressive Therapy, and Cultural, Political, and Feminist Therapies
9. Doing Narrative Psychiatry
10. Critical Reflections
Appendix: "Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter," by Chitra Divakaruni
Notes
References
Index
