I’d just graduated and there I was in what was called “a mental hospital” starting my internship. My very first “patient” was Don. I was prepared for the encounter by reading his file. He’d suffered traumatic injuries from a motorbike accident some years earlier and while his body had healed, his mind was drastically changed. […]
Tag: narrative medicine
Professions such as Social Work, Medicine and Psychology are becoming increasingly aware of the therapeutic properties of writing and storytelling and there are numerous examples of how people of all ages face and overcome life’s challenges through the art of telling their stories. Everyone understands the important role of stress in life experience. The relief […]
Billions of neurones are constantly making and pruning connections with other neurones in your brain. Acts of thinking and perception can be detected at the neuronal level as a complex movement electro-chemical signals. So it’ll come as no surprise that stories have a significant impact of the neurochemistry of our brain/mind/body complex. DARPA (Defence Advanced Research […]
There is a magical link between life story and the way we construct our selfhood/sense-of-self and the experience of the world around us. This timeline helps you unpack and deconstruct your own narrative and then craft it into the Heroes Journey it deserves to be – reframe and recreate it to get what it is you […]
Ultimately your experience of the world is reflected in the many billions of electro-chemical changes that occur continuously in your endocrine system, your immune system and your nervous system. It is known that the various substances we consume can have a profound impact on the way in which we experience the world. Make it your […]
A number of thinkers from widely differing fields have studied and commented on myths and legends. Here is a sampling of their observations: Views: 4
“The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease” Voltaire (1694 – 1778) Narrative medicine is not something you’ll easily find on the ‘net and if you do, information is sparse. But would it surprise you to know that the techniques employed by both Western allopathic medicine and African traditional healers […]