The art of narrative psychiatry / by SuEllen Hamkins.

'The Art of Narrative Psychiatry' provides a comprehensive description of narrative psychiatry in action. Engaging and accessible, it demonstrates how to help patients cultivate their personal sources of strength and meaning as resources for recovery.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hamkins, SuEllen (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2013]
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Table of Contents:
  • What is narrative psychiatry?
  • Connecting with compassion : the therapeutic relationship
  • Starting with stories of success : the initial psychiatric consultation
  • Externalizing and unpacking the problem : understanding symptoms and suffering
  • Cultivating stories of strength and meaning and deconstructing damaging discourses : the course of treatment
  • Collaborating in considering treatment options : medicine and other psychiatric resources
  • Finding lost stories of love : remembering love and legacy amid loss
  • Finding ones voice : recovering from trauma
  • Finding happiness : rising from despair and turning away from anxiety.